Browse Items (802 total)

  • Collection: Collecting the world

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Nose flute with 6 holes, excised pattern of triangles and bands.

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Eighteen models of musical instruments, made after court patterns.

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Figure of Mut in bronze, double crowned. Reid (1912): 'Mut ... was represented as a woman wearing the double crown. The vulture was sacred to her.'

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Iron muzzle, half circle with 6 u-shaped spikes. For calves, to make cow kick when they suck and so wean them by force. All over Albania.

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The corroded remains of an iron nail, mounted on a card label: 'Iron Nail from House in Herculaneum, excavd Sept 1828'. Inscription: Iron Nail from House in Herculaneum, excavd Sept 1828

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Made from carved whale teeth (38 spikes) strung together with plaited vegetable fibre.

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Neck ornament made of boar's tusk and small woven fibre rectangle, colour red.

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Beadwork necklace, rectangular in shape with a twisted cotton thread at each end for fastening. Bead colours: black, white, red, green and blue, set in diamond patterns. Thread colour: yellow. Hasluck: ' Bead necklace for girl or young woman from…

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Necklace/collar in amber/gum beads, spacers of black glass and silver, with pendant amulet/charm of tin or silver.

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Shell beads strung together as a necklace.
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