Triangular, black amulet, decorated with embroidery, beads and gold lace in circles and loops, with coloured rope: green, pink, yellow, orange, purple and brown. Used against illness by Catholics, from Shala, North-East Albania. Note in donor file:…
Circular alms-dish, in tinned copper. Shows Eve handing apple to Adam with serpent entwined round tree. Greek inscription on inside of dish. From Mount Athos, Greece.
Shelves set in each other & bowed twig at the head end. A long narrow hole as a handle-hold on both of the long sides, these sides decorated with a pattern of regular lines and stylised flowers. This is one of four cradles collected from Albania by…
Two black leather shoes, each one decorated with a large pompom and orange button, soles decorated with white metal studs. Hasluck: 'worn by Albanian women'.
Round leather purse. Decoration: iron crow button, red leather, openwork and brass rings (three), leaf-shaped decoration on the bottom. Leather thread through purse.