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Carved chalk figure, stylised human head: cylinder with planes of face carved, and features incised.

Shell beads strung together as a necklace.

Shell beads strung together as a necklace.

double circle

single circle

Neck ornament made of boar's tusk and small woven fibre rectangle, colour red.

Ibeji, female statuette, standing. If a twin dies the death is marked by the commissioning of a carved wooden figurine from a sculptor. Known as an 'ibeji', the figurine is of the same sex as the dead twin and is treated by the mother with all the…

Ibeji, male statuette, standing. If a twin dies the death is marked by the commissioning of a carved wooden figurine from a sculptor. Known as an 'ibeji', the figurine is of the same sex as the dead twin and is treated by the mother with all the love…

Small statue of Aesculapius. The head is classical, the body probably 19th century AD. Head given to Fordyce by Lord Bute (see Knight c.1840, MS M111 for two references to 'the head of Esculapius').

Pear-shaped, with two handles - encrusted with seaworm.