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Shiny black pottery vessel, 'whistle' pot, with erotic couple, buggery scene, Chimu culture, Peru.

Vase in baked red clay. Three lugs around rim, one broken. Shallow dish-shaped on pedestal base. Used for burning incense. Inscription: Old label: Vase for burning incense - Babylonian

One of two bottle/jar fragments, in blown glass with a ribbed handle. Found in tumulus.

Steel bladed knife or kukri, with handle in wood and leather sheath. Label on sheath, with number 152. Used by Gurkhas of Nepal. One of six listed in Reid's 1912 Catalogue. Inscription: handwritten label on sheath: Cookerai from Nepal. Presented 1821…

A large wooden spear or club.

Flute in carved wood, was described by Nockells as a 'nose instrument'. Carved decoration of faces (3, and in relief).

Carved wooden object. Michie (1887) describes this as a dirk, Reid (1912) as a dagger, Hunt (1981) as a weaving peg. Inscription: In ink on the point in cursive style: New Zealand dirk

Three pieces of carved ivory, tied together, with anthropomorphic decoration. Michie (1887) describes this as a 'Piece of carved bone from Otaheite', Reid (1912) as 'Work of art in elaborately carved ivory', Hunt (1981) as a 'Fly-whisk handle'.

Carving in ivory, from Burma. Heavily carved with animal/mythical head at the top, birds and other animals, and some of the detail is filled with black to accentuate the outlines. Hollow at the base as if to fit over a staff. Inscription: in faded…