board shield

Wooden board, carved in relief and painted in red and black, motif: scroll patterns and stylised human heads.

Early: 1850 Late: 1899

L: 842 mm W(in centre): 133 mm Th(in centre): 29

Melanesia Papua.New.Guinea South.East

Macgregor, William Sir

wood pigment

Macgregor, William Sir

Vase with narrow mouth, figure of a female sitting, Sorrento Vase with three lobed mouth and figure of a bird Large vase with four figures, two-handles, entire and not restored or cleaned, found at Bari, 1828 Vase with three handles and one figure of a satyr :Coarse vase, sunbaked, found under stream of lava on Mount Albano by Signor Carnivallieri who gave it to me. It represents a wine skin Etruscan pottery oval ball Small jug of plain black but very fine pottery of Nola manufacture (mark a small black circle on bottom) Roman saucepan presented by George Kerr, Esq., surgeon Dance shield New Guinea Shields of this type were used by young men while dancing. The carvings are elaborate and stylized patterns representing the frigate bird, which is common in New Guinea. Combs These were worn in the hair as decoration. Nefertem was the son of Sekhmet and Ptah, representing the heat of the rising sun and its regenerative powers. William Macgregor (1846-1919) served the British Colonial Office for 14 years in Fiji (1875-1888), primarily as Chief Medical Officer, but also holding offices such as Receiver-General, Colonial Secretary, Commissioner of Stamps and Acting Administrator. Bronze flanged axe. Italy, Middle Bronze Age. 1800-1500BC 'Roman battle-axe found in the Vale of Clitumnus.' Quotation from the journals of Dr Robert Wilson (1787-1871). Bronze 'sunflower head' pin and necklet from a hoard Dingwall (c900-600BC). Penny of Alexander III (1280-1285). Traveller's sundial from Aberdeenshire 656. Dice, four (one imperfect), in ivory. Roman. Wilson Collection. Purchased. 656. Dice, four (one imperfect), in ivory. Roman. Wilson Collection. Purchased. 656. Dice, four (one imperfect), in ivory. Roman. Wilson Collection. Purchased. 656. Dice, four (one imperfect), in ivory. Roman. Wilson Collection. Purchased. 597. Clock, dial in chased silver, black marble case ornamented with grenades, military designs and oak leaves in silver engraved 'PENINSULA TOULOUSE BADAJOS TALAVERA ORTHES NIVELLE VITTORIA SALAMNACE'. Case upon base in black marble with scroll in silver engraved 'WATERLOO'. Plinth in black marble supporting on each side figure of Belgian lion in bronze connected in front by band of holly in bronze. Case surmounted by equestrian statue of Wellington on base engraved 'COMTE D'ORSAY. SCULPT. 1848', in bronze. Bequeathed by Mrs. Haynes, Aberdeen, 1910. During the Neolithic in Britain, about 4000-2000 BC, accomplished flint knapping produced some highly finished items, such as arrowheads, knives, sickles and laurel leaf points. These, along with ground stone artifacts, were probably objects denoting high social status. This is an end scraper made on a fairly large blade, in a grey mottled flint. The distal end of the blade has been modified by steep retouch to make an almost V-shaped scraper edge. The scraper was found in the Bog of Fintray, Fintray, Aberdeenshire, along with other large, well made flint tools. This type of tool is typical of some made in the later Neolithic, but it is possible that the flint was brought into Aberdeenshire from further south in Britain. During the Bronze age jewellery and personal ornaments were made from metal, both bronze and gold. This is a bronze pin-head of the sunflower type. It is a bronze disc with a central boss and a projection on the underside where the pin has broken off. It is decorated with two sets of incised concentric circles and the rim is upturned. This pin-head is part of a collection of bronzes donated to Marischal Museum, Aberdeen in July 1984. The donation included the donor's great-grandfather William Joyner's original collection of the Dingwall hoard of bronzes taken by him to Natal, South Africa in 1851 and two other bronzes. The hoard comprises this pin-head, two socketed axes and a rare neck-ring, all dating from the later Bronze Age, 1100-700BC and found together near Dingwall in the early 19th century. The two other bronzes became associated with the collection while in Africa and are probably of African origin. During the prehistoric period collections of metal or stone items, often of value to the community or individuals, were buried or deposited in wet places. Axeheads, swords, halberds and ornaments are often found in these hoards. The type of artefact found in a hoard is probably not typical of everyday objects. However, the associations of different objects can help to establish the dates of artefact types. Before mechanical clocks or watches were widely available, ways of telling the time of day or of timing an event were varied. Various devices could measure the position of the sun, such as a sundial, others measured the passage of time. Portable sundials were common before watches were generally available. This is a traveller's ring sundial, made of brass, dating from the mid 18th century. It is small, about bracelet size, and easily carried. It is inscribed on both surfaces with numerals to allow the time to be read. The ring is hung by a thread from the small loop mon the outside and a tiny hole in the ring allows a beam of sun to shine through on to the numerals on the inner side of the ring. The time is read from the altitude of the sun. - Traveller's Ring Sundial, brass. Sometimes referred to as Bracelet dial, it functions by the sun's altitude irrespective of its azimuth (direction). The ring is 2 inches in diameter and 0.5 inches wide. The outer face is marked with IFM AMI IAS OND for the months of the year, I representing J. W and S probably denote the summer and winter solstice, which are calibration positions. A B C and TW are also marked. The inner surface is marked with two sets of diagonal lines, the hour numerals and the half-hour dots. Each of three inscribed rings is marked A B and C. In use a slider on the outer surface is set to the date and provides a mount to stand the ring, which is rotated until the sun shining through a hole in the edge falls on the diagonal hour lines on the inner surface. On some examples an eyelet suspends the ring. The light spot is lined up with the centres of these lines at the equinoxes, with the bottom of the lines at the summer solstice and the top ends at the winter solstice, the A B and C rings probably aid this calibration. No knowledge of direction is needed. Mid 18th century.

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