Item: dagger knife
Catalogue#: ABDUA 63820
One of a pair of daggers, made of 'buffalo's horn' (Michie 1887), hilt decorated with circles and dots. Old hand-written label on hilt. Inscription: Label: East Indian Daggers made of Buffalo's Horn
Tombstone (imperfect) in white stone with inscription and turban-like top. This is probably one of the 'Two Tombstones of white marble from Turkish Burying Grounds' presented by Capt James Brebner, Aberdeen, 1805 mentioned in Knight, W, 1840,…
'Part of a relievo of Grecian sculpture, in white marble' - reference in Knight's handwritten catalogue, c. 1840, under 'Antiquities' but no reference in 1887 King's College Catalogue, nor in Reid's 1912 Catalogue.
Rectangular shaped piece of tapa with a hole in the centre, and patches (strips), decoration: pattern of short red lines. Hunt (1981): 'A poncho-like garment made by a daughter of one of the Tahitian women who accompanied the bounty mutineers to…