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Image of a Buddhist priest, in contemplative attitude, in bronze.

Human statuette in sitting position, arms folded across chest.

Neck-pendant, obverse represents figure with eyes inlaid with mother of pearl, cord in plaited vegetable fibre, toggle made of bird bone and decorated with incised hatching. Inscription: Label, ink, back: The E Tiki or Heir loom of the New…

Stocking in white cotton, blue silk, and bound with black velvet and gold braid. Worn by Chinese male.

Model of a stupa in gilded bronze, hollowed out and containing four figures of Buddha .

Suit of mail composed of chain armour and decorated with leather bands. 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…

Bronze Ewart Park sword, part of a hoard of 4 swords found together. 19th-century inscription on blade at hilt. Inscription: ONE OF FOUR FOUND IN A PEAT MOSS NEAR HADDO HOUSE AND GIVEN BY LORD ABERDEEN TO MR THOMSON BANCHORY 27th SEPT 1858

Wooden sword with two rows of sharks teeth mounted along the edges (one row along each edge). Plaited vegetable fibre through the handle.

Wooden sword with two rows of sharks teeth mounted along the edges (one row along each edge). Plaited vegetable fibre through the handle.

Blade of a double-edged sword with signature on fullers and ricasso. See museum's Accessions Book, 1941-1944, 1946-1963, p98: 'Sword Blade (Old). L 1050 B35 Found in Holyrood Chapel wall.' Thomson's MS Catalogue: 'Sword found in Wall of Holyrood…