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  • Collection: Collecting the world

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Wooden club, decorated with carved human figure on handle. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'Club (Nambat Mol - little pig killing), ceremonial'.

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Kayak, in seal skins sewed together with tendon and stretched over framework in pieces of redwood lashed together with strips of whalebone and hide. (Wooden girth and rope lashing round manhole modern - inserted 1900.)' Reported by Reid (1912) as…

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Figure of the head of Sekhmet. A special chamber was consecrated in the temple of Mut at Thebes to this goddess. This head came from that chamber.

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Model of an Indian well, with two bullocks drawing water and fifteen Indian figures, all made in India.

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moccasin for a child, multi-coloured floral pattern.

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Spinning wheel. Type: Saxony upright.

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M. 3. ROMAN BRONZE POT, found about the year 1837, at the late farm of Flabbits, Durris, Kincardineshire. Injured by the plough that turned it up.
Bronze pot or cauldron, three legs, bellied body & flaring neck, two handles. Plough damage.

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Fragment of medieval stained glass window mounted in a wooden frame, with a postcard 'Campaign de 1914 Ruines d'YPRES Incendie du Beffroi 22 novembre 1914'. Collected from Ypres by a soldier serving there in World War I.

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One of a collection of 4 images of the Buddha, in gilded wood, all standing, presented by Lieut. Col. W. Lachlan Forbes in the 1920s.
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