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Most Potent, Grave, and Reverend Electors of Aberdeen
Satirical Reform poster poking fun at Provost Hadden's expense account.
mosaic (pieces)
Two glass test-tubes, filled with mosaic tesserae (in various shades of blue, red, yellow, green, black and white), stoppered with cottonwool, and mounted on a card label: 'Ancient Mosaic Tesserae Rome'. Inscription: Ancient Mosaic Tesserae Rome
mosaic ( fragments )
Two glass test-tubes filled with pieces of mosaic, mostly white and grey, stoppered with cottonwool and mounted on a card label: Inscription: Ancient Mosaic Tesserae Cumae'
Mortsafe model. Three wooden poles arranged in a pyramid shape over a hole in the ground. Hanging over the hole is a coffin shaped slab of stone, suspended from the poles by a series of hooked metal bars and a winch.
Model of an early nineteenth-century Inverurie mortsafe - the original would have been placed over recent burials to prevent the removal of bodies for study.
Mortsafe
Model of a mortsafe from Kirkton of Skene. A heavy section of stone has metal bars attached at all edges. The metal bars would be inserted into the ground with the heavy slab onto of the grave. The model is stored upside down laying on the stone to…
Moorish Girl of Richer Class
STUDY OF GIRL
Mooress in Feast Day Dress
Study of a young North African Arab woman standing in a horse-shoe arched doorway, presumably in Tangier, Morocco. The woman wears traditional dress, several necklaces, and a beaded head covering.
