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Crochet and bead work purse, made by prisoners. Textile colour: discoloured grey, discoloured red, and beige and yellow discoloured blue. Beads: green and white striped effect.

Bag, in tooled and dyed leather and embroidered cloth, with a long leather strap. Leather: light and dark brown. Cloth: blue, black, red stripes. Embroidery: blue, black, yellow, green.

Leather purse with a draw-string top, dyed light brown and dark brown.

Leather purse, draw-string top, white leather edging, top half of purse dark brown, lower half light brown. Inscription: Paper label: 68 9

Quiver, wood covered in leather and decorated with black and brown strips of leather. Contains 7 poisoned arrows, shafts of bamboo, barbed points in iron.

Bamboo quiver, covered with decorated leather and canvas, lid in strips of rattan. Contains 17 arrows with shafts in bamboo and barbed points in iron. 'Used by Fulahs' Reid (1912).

Thomson Catalogue, 1847-48 'Nine poisoned darts used by natives of Dajak in Borneo dipped in juice of Lepas Tree and thrown by Blowpipe No 17'.

Figure of a ram in blue glazed ware, ring for suspension. Reid (1912): 'The ram was sacred to Khnemu, god of Elephantine, and to Amen, god of Thebes. It was also worshipped at Mendes.'

Wooden 'reaping hand' used when shearing with a hook. Colour: brown. Shape: pin, narrow wing, 4 holes, oval.

Relief carving showing the royal family of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten. Akhenaten, a brother of Tutankhamun established his court at Amarna and replaced the traditional religion with a belief in a single god in the form of Aten, represented on…