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Large hat, pink/red border. Thomson: 'Toedung or hat from Bashee Isles'.

Hat from Java made of palm leaves and straw.

Painted wooden figure of a hawk, on three supports, illegibly inscribed cartouche on front support. The hawk and supports are from different specimens.

Bride's head-dress in tapestry. Profusely decorated with beads and coins. In use in villages in mountains. Bulgaria or Yugoslavia?

Italian headdress (silou) bought at Bergamo.

Headrest, in wood, in four pieces. Long rectangular base, two sections of the octaganal shaft, and abacus and curve as one piece. Attachment by long wooden dowel and two pieces of wood on shaft - bottom and top sections. Funerary use. New Kingdom…

The scarab beetle was the symbol of the god Khopri and represeented new life and resurrection. Ordinary scarabs, or paste or stone, were simply seals and were worn as amulets by everybody in later times. Scarabs were also used as amulets on mummies…

Shirt and helmet of chain armour - The armour and weapons of West African kingdoms and Sudanic states were very like those used during the Middle Ages and provided little protection from the rifles and machine guns of the colonial powers. The cluster…

Helmet, composed of chain armour and decorated with leather bands. One of two collected from Central Sudan and listed together in the museum's slip catalogue.

Collected during the Lhasa Expedition 1903/4.