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Image of an early 20th century radium compress encased in a protective container.
Used for treating rheumatism

Image of Tipiti, a cylindrical device made of vegetable fibre to process cassava.
used for making cassava (manioc)

Image of the tip of a poison dart.
Poison Dart contained within a glass tube with bungs at either end. Curare poison dart from the Amazon Valley. The tip is smeared with the Curare poison; the shaft is a slender tapered splinter of bamboo; it is feathered by some downy fibre wrapped…

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cylindrical box containing 14 poison-tipped arrows, quills attached to box with twine. Old label: Bamboo box, containing poisoned arrows, British Guinea." Presented by Alexander Stuart, 1887

Image of tobacco pipe made from bamboo and rattan with a decorative plaited vegetable fibre.
Large tobacco pipe in bamboo with pokerwork decoration. The pipe is cylindrical and quite long and wide, with a round hole at one end, a shallow bowl-shape at the other and a very small round hole beneath with no attachment. The decorated section…

Image of 20th century mercury thermometer.
min/max thermometer, U shaped glass tube with limit pins set above the mercury. Plastic case. A red plastic magnet holder is hung on the bottom for use in setting the limit pins; possibly modern for maintaining air control

Image of dried specimen of yew.
Dried plant specimen. Label headed 'Flora Britannica'

Image of model wasp habitat.

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Fluid/ Wet Specimen. Head only, some skin removed to show poison glands.

Image of 19th century tea brick embossed with a Chinese character.
Slab of tea taken from China through Tibet to Darjeeling.
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