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Wooden painted head, the hair is woven into a cloth scalp that is connected by an internal rod to the base. The hair stands on end when the head is sat on a electrostatically charged table, King's visitors' centre caption "Another of Professor…

headdress woven in native wool dyed with cochineal, decorated with blue and white beads,shell buttons and spoonbill feathers. ''Worn on festive occasions by Lengua Indians. Chaco, Paraguay. Presented by Dr. J.W. Lindsay, 1909.

Bride's head-dress in tapestry. Profusely decorated with beads and coins. In use in villages in mountains. Bulgaria or Yugoslavia?

Italian headdress (silou) bought at Bergamo.

Headrest, in wood, in four pieces. Long rectangular base, two sections of the octaganal shaft, and abacus and curve as one piece. Attachment by long wooden dowel and two pieces of wood on shaft - bottom and top sections. Funerary use. New Kingdom…

The scarab beetle was the symbol of the god Khopri and represeented new life and resurrection. Ordinary scarabs, or paste or stone, were simply seals and were worn as amulets by everybody in later times. Scarabs were also used as amulets on mummies…

Wooden handle, iron teeth and tang. Tang is heart-shaped, with central rib. Used in dressing flax.

Heckle for dressing flax, with wooden frame (one end is broken) and iron teeth, carder shape: rectangular. Reid 1912, p45, has illustration labelled A508, but the illustration is actually of A509 (a bigger heckle with round carder).