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Amulet. Design represents a parrot.

Human skulls carved in stone, with tenons at the back for fitting into a wall Aztec or Tlascalan style, Mexico, A.D.1450-1520 Described by Dr McPherson as from the southern state of Oaxaca, the skulls are more likely to be from the Atlantic coast…

Human skulls carved in stone, with tenons at the back for fitting into a wall Aztec or Tlascalan style, Mexico, A.D.1450-1520. Described by Dr McPherson as from the southern state of Oaxaca, the skulls are more likely to be from the Atlantic coast…

Clay head, Mongoloid type, Archaic.

Fragment (head) of red clay figure, covered in greyish clay/pigment, some of which is now flaking off. Wears necklet.

Clay statuette: representation of female figure, Mongoloid type with head and hat or headdress, small arms legs and exaggerated hips. Museum's slip catalogue: 'FIGURINES, human, 16* fragments of, in a whitish pottery. Found by a workman when digging…

Fragment of statuette; traces of red pigment on headdress.

Fragment of statuette.

Jar or 'olla', in grey ware, decorated with anthropomorphic or animal face.

Small vessel/cup in the shape of a duck (possibly a toy?), grey pottery. One of four vessels in McPherson's collection (a9A-D) in the shape of animals (duck, frog, large dog, small dog).