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Fragment of statuette; traces of red pigment on headdress.

Clay statuette: representation of female figure, Mongoloid type with head and hat or headdress, small arms legs and exaggerated hips. Museum's slip catalogue: 'FIGURINES, human, 16* fragments of, in a whitish pottery. Found by a workman when digging…

Fragment (head) of red clay figure, covered in greyish clay/pigment, some of which is now flaking off. Wears necklet.

Clay head, Mongoloid type, Archaic.

Human skulls carved in stone, with tenons at the back for fitting into a wall Aztec or Tlascalan style, Mexico, A.D.1450-1520. Described by Dr McPherson as from the southern state of Oaxaca, the skulls are more likely to be from the Atlantic coast…

Human skulls carved in stone, with tenons at the back for fitting into a wall Aztec or Tlascalan style, Mexico, A.D.1450-1520 Described by Dr McPherson as from the southern state of Oaxaca, the skulls are more likely to be from the Atlantic coast…

Amulet. Design represents a parrot.

Stone axe Olmec style, Guerrero, Mexico, 1500 B.C.-A.D.300 The polished surface of this porphyry axe blade is engraved, in fine lines, with a divine figure wearing a jaguar mask and holding a club or burning torch. The Olmex style spread from its…

Pottery jar; slanted pattern on exterior.

Pottery jar with nubbin feet.