Browse Items (32 total)

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Carved chalk stone with stylised human head in a phallic shape. Planes of face carved, with features incised and drilled. Traces of blue pigment and red pigment. Used to be display in the Bowie case in the South Gallery.

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Pears soap.

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A pair of snow goggles, carved from one piece of wood, curved to fit around the face, two horizontal eye-slits, which are wider at bridge, They are held in place by a piece of twisted sinew which is looped into small perforations at each end of the…

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Ushabti figure, left arm hanging down at side, blue glazed ware, completely covered with inscription of spells from the Book of the Dead. On a modern wooden stand

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Scare-devil in cloth and wood. Used to scare away evil eye from bee hives.

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Box 'Take capsule between thumb and first finger of each hand, press ends downwards to break in centre, Inhale vapour'

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Image of a plague doctor – frontispiece from Jean-Jacques Manget, Traité de la peste: recueilli des meilleurs auteurs anciens et modernes, et enrichi de remarques et observations théoriques et pratiques : avec une table très ample des matières…

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Percussion pistol with a steel barrel, formerly used at marriages in Aberdeenshire.
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