Knife or fir gully, with an iron blade and a manufactured wooden handle held in place with a decorated brass ferrule (decoration: incised bands & rings). The knife was used to cut fir candles, strips of wood from pine trees.
Fir gully or knife, with an iron blade and wooden handle. From Cults, Aberdeenshire. The knife was used to cut 'fir candles', splinters of wood from pine trees. This knife has been hafted into a home-made handle and is held in place with a thin…
Fragment of statuette; pre-classic. Clay figurines appear in the graves and household debris of the earliest farmers in Mexico and continued to be made and used by successive civilisations until the Spanish Conquest. Those made by the village…
Fragment of a statuette; head with 'hat'; pre-classic. Valley of Mexico, 2000 B.C.-A.D.500 Clay figurines appear in the graves and household debris of the earliest farmers in Mexico and continued to be made and used by successive civilisations until…