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Quaich. A small wooden bowl about the size of an egg cup, carved from a single piece of wood with a blocky handle on each side and a circular base with a scalloped edge which is carved with an interlace pattern on the underside.
Wooden bowl or drinking-cup, with two lugs (handles). Base shape: nonegonal, base decoration: carved interlace pattern.
Powder horn. Made of a flattened horn, cream coloured grading into dark brown at the top. Decorated with incised knotwork circles and bands, two unicorns and three horse heads beneath the letters M, A, F, a pentagram in a circle, a thistle and a crude profile of a man wearing a hat.
Powder horn, flattened, to carry gunpowder for a pistol or dag. Decorated with a border and large filled circle of ropelike interlace, geometric metopes, thistles, a stylized head and stylized animals, possibly unicorns, with the letters 'M', 'A' and…
Paddle. The end of a wooden paddle, covered in numerous small cracks.
Paddle, from lake dwelling, Loch Kinnord.
Sweir kitty. A wooden apparatus about a foot wide consisting of turned wooden rods. The base has two rods in a T shape, from the opposite ends of which project two more rods perpendicularly. Between these rods is a metal rod on to which is threaded two wooden spindles.
Yarn winder, or swier-kitty, with frame in wood and spindles in iron. Type: double-reeled. Shape: turned. Decoration: concentric bands (incised).
Gartane leem. An open wooden box about the size of a shoebox, with a panel with a row of alternating long vertical gaps and holes projecting upwards from inside. On one end of the box is a crank which turns a bobbin wound with thread.
Gartane-leem with drawer, in wood. A small portable loom for weaving garters and cradle strings.
Carding combs. Two large rectangular wooden combs with handles. A large number of small iron pins, bent slightly in the middle, project from the bodies of the combs.
A pair of carding combs, with backs in wood and teeth in iron wire, fixed in leather.
Netting needle. A long, flat piece of wood with a round point and a rectangular hole near the point which has a tongue of wood projecting across it.
Wooden (beech wood) netting needle, central spike broken, for mending fishing nets.
Touting horn. A small brown horn with a plain cord. The horn is decorated with incised knotwork patterns.
Hunting or 'touting' horn, made from an ox horn and inscribed with a design of interlace and entwined concentric circles. Dates from later 17th century. When this object was donated the donor said it once was in the collection of George Davidson. …
Froe stick. A wooden stick with a flat cross at the top, around which is wrapped twisted hair.
Froe stick, or milk whisk, used for whipping cream at Hallowe'en. Small wooden cross on a shaft, with the cross wrapped round with a halo of twisted hair from a cow's tail.
Distaff and spindle. A wooden staff almost a metre long. Hanging from the staff by a length of string is a small wooden rod with a fat stone ring on it.
Wooden distaff and spindle, claystone whorl. Whorl decoration: concentric circles (incised).