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Components: top with porringer, floor, four legs. Carved decoration on the top and porringer: zigzag, linear, circular. Probable only the top comes from Albania (fragile and different kind of wood). Original label in museum's 'donor' file: 'with…

Chisel in bronze, given by an Arab to Rev. Professor John Forbes, on a visit to the valley of the Tombs of the Kings, near Thebes in 1839.

Reliquary, in the form of a model of a chorten (Mchordten) in brass and set with precious stones, with small figures of the seated Buddha facing the four directions. Collected during the Lhasa Expedition 1903/4. According to correspondence (includes…

Glass test-tube, stoppered with cork, containing sample of beads still strung together, mounted on a card label: 'Cloth of Beads from Mummy'. Inscription: Cloth of Beads from Mummy

Carved wooden club from Hawaii. Thomson's MS Catalogue: 'Carved club - very heavy - from Owhyee (Hawaji). Mr Walker S Davidson'.

One of five clubs listed in Reid, 1912. Circular disc-like end. James Edward Keith (1696 -1758), Younger brother of the last Earl Marischal of Scotland. Exiled for taking up arms against the Hanovarians in the 1715 uprising, he fled to the Continent,…

Club in hard wood. Handwritten addition to Museum's 'Slip Catalogue' reads: 'Said to have been brought from the New Hebrides by a christian missionary Peter Milne and presented by him to the Reverend Thomas Lockerby Wilson, first minister of the Free…

Club with carved decoration of plain and notched circular bands. Reid (1912): 'Used in killing boars in ceremonies.' Inscription: used in killing boars in ceremonies

Wooden club, decorated with carved human figure on handle. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'Club (Nambat Mol - little pig killing), ceremonial'.

18 specimens of Kimmeridge coal money.