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Bread-stamp in wood. Carved by Monks on Mount Athos, Greece, and found in every Greek household. On main side, two compartments for Jesus Christ, one for nine archangels and one for Virgin Mary. The small stamp is a duplicate of the compartment…

Breast Plates. These two objects, each known as a civa vono vono in Fiji, was worn on ceremonial occasions as a sign of rank. No 3 is made of trochus shell, sperm whale tooth and cotton. Cotton was not grown in Fiji and would have been imported from…

Breast ornament, made of segments of melo shell, with string for suspension in matted vegetable fibre decorated with pieces of shell.

Camel's bridle/collar in silver with twenty cylindrical-shaped ornaments and eighteen square ornaments strung on plaited cord, with three conical tassels hanging from each ornament, and seventeen green beads separating the ornaments from one another.

One of a collection of 4 images of the Buddha, in gilded wood, all standing, presented by Lieut. Col. W. Lachlan Forbes in the 1920s.

Image of the Buddha, in earth-pointing attitude, with long ears. Probably had a top-knot, but this is now missing. Resin body with a thin silver skin. Silver has been soldered together at sides. Labelled on base 199, but matches dimensions and…

Image of the Buddha, in earth-pointing attitude. Solid resin base, covered with a thin silver skin. Labelled on base 198, but measurements agree with statuette 199 in Reid. Inscription: 198

Silver image of the Buddha in earth-pointing attitude on a throne/dais.

Specimens of blue glass bugles (long beads) and tiny white beads, still connected by thread, in a glass test-tube, stoppered with cork and mounted on a card label: 'Glass Bugles from a Mummy'. Inscription: Glass Bugles from a Mummy

Cedar wood cabinet with 9 drawers containing plaster casts of gems executed by Bartolomeo and Pietro Paoletti, No 49 Piazza Di Spagna, Roma.. Three hundred casts depict Roman History, in Drawers I to VI, 26 casts from work of Canova in Drawer VII, 25…