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Coat Newfoundland This long coat was made from pieces of sealskin sewn together and fastened with ivory toggles. It is made in a European style but using traditional Inuit materials and techniques. It is recorded as having been made for MacGregor by…

Black cylindrical coffee container with sliding plate to cover entrance. Rod through centre with sharp end.

Inner coffin with both with base and lid. Lid of coffin painted and inscribed, mask of head raised. Inner coffin and the mummy of Ta-khar were originally in an outer coffin (outer coffin on display in S09). The mummy was probably found at Qft or…

Wooden coffin of Thesaberu, lid painted and inscribed, mask of head raised. Contains mummy of female (24-30yrs), in brown linen swathings. X-ray of mummy shows arms folded over chest.

From the 'Shoe Lane hoard'. Almost illegible. Old label: 'About 2 Bushels found in Shoe Lane Aberdeen 1847...' Obv: Rev: [ ] VICIT [ ]

'Found in removing Old houses at Nth end of St Nicholas St Abdn. Inscription: Obv: +EDWRANGLONS Rev: CIVI TAS LON DON

From the 'Hillside, Bothy Brig' hoard. Old label: 'Found in 1837 in making Hill road from Hillside to Bothie brig - about middle of Wood Fence by roadside & near a large flat rock inside of wood.' Inscription: Obv: +MARIA.D.G.REGINA.SCOTO [ ] Rev: […

Made from whale teeth (32 spikes) strung together with plaited vegetable fibre.

Wooden hair comb, with carved decoration

Wooden comb, decorated with glass beads, colours: red, blue and white. Reid (1912): 'Worn by chief.'