Carved wooden lime spatula, decorated with female figure with glass beads (red), and shell beads (red). Hunt(1981): 'Betel chewing is practised widely in Melanesia. The betal mixture consists of nut of the areca palm, fruit or leaves of the betel…

Grave goods. Inuit. Found with ABDUA: 6078 - 6117. 'belonged to chief of Button Islands'. Components:flat iron point, rivetted to bone or ivory foreshaft. Towards the other end of the foreshaft there are 2 large perforations and a separate ivory…

Human head, fragment of a stone statuette.

Fragment of statuette.

Fragment of a statuette, Mongoloid type.

Seated figurine; grey pottery. From Isthmus of Tehuantepec, State of Oaxaca. 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 the Spanish…

With horizontal incisions.

Head of the Buddha with topknot (ushnisha) and tuft (urna), halo missing.

Fragment of a statuette, turbanned head with halo, possibly of Boddhisatva Maitreya. Inscription: Old label: 27

Fragment of a relief showing a kneeling Atlant with wings and elephantine feet (larger of the two panels on display in the museum). Inscription: Old label: 1
This motif has ancient near Eastern origins and is found in early Indian and Greek art. In…