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  • Collection: Collecting the world

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Dagger, steel double-edged blade, handle in wood. Sheath in leather and skin (reptile?), with cord of twisted leather.

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Round dish used as a hanging decoration ('hoel'). Decoration: woman in centre, long dress, floral design, (black) drawing, other colours: white, brown, green, yellow.

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Tripod dish in grey pottery. Very characteristic of Zapotecan culture.

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Tripod dish in pottery; feet in form of birds' heads.

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Shallow pottery tripod dish; decorated with reddish-brown and black paint on interior and exterior; 'cascabel' feet.

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Distaff, decorated with incised floral and geometrical designs in wood dated 1915. Pindus Mountains, Greece.

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Folded sheet of paper, when opened reveals window aperture, compass bearings, names. Record of astronomical observations? Inscription: On front, hand-written in ink: Presented by ?? at the College of ?? to Robert Wilson.

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Old Scottish door latch and knocker, Thomson's Catalogue (Small General Catalogue of Banchory House Museum 1862): 'from Mrs Macvicar'.
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