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

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

Gold pendant ornament Mixtec style, Oaxaca, Mexico, A.D.1400-1500 The Mixteca were supreme artists in gold and lapidary work. This small mask, with the face of beaten plate and cast pendant ear ornaments, resembles some of the magnificent gold items…

Fragment of statuette, head only, traces of red paint on face.

Clay statuette; representation of Tlaloc with elaborate loincloth, neck ornament and headdress. Inscription: Old label: 146+4

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

Fragment of a statuette; head with 'hat'; pre-classic. Valley of Mexico, 2000 B.C.-A.D.500 Clay figurines appear in the graves and household debris of the earliest farmers in Mexico and continued to be made and used by successive civilisations until…

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…

Wooden figure, painted black and red. Female, wearing black blanket/cloak. The style of dress and face-paint is typical and is good evidence for the appearance of mid-19th century Haida. 

Chilkat blanket woven from mountain-goat wool and yellow-cedar bark Tsimshian style, British Columbia The yarns were died black, yellow and green by boiling in solutions of urine, hemlock, copper and certain species of lichen, and were woven into…