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Kris with straight, double-edged damascened blade in steel. Carved wooden handle in form of female figure with flowing robes. Carved wooden scabbard with head decorated with birds, flowers etc. in black, red, gold and blue.

Coarse sunbaked vase. Museum's slip catalogue quotes Thomson 'found under stream of lava on Mount Albano by Signor Carnivallieri who gave it me. It represents a wine skin.'

Italian headdress (silou) bought at Bergamo.

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'

Cone of coarse pottery, usually found outside an Etruscan tomb

Presented to Alexander Thomson Esq of Banchory, by the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, for a report on the cultivation of chicory and flax in Belgium, 1837. Inscription: SEMPER ARMIS NUNC ET INDUSTRIA Highland and Agricultural Society…

Shield in angled wood decorated with hair.

One of four baskets, 'one in cloves, three in grass'. This one is light-coloured and has a lid. Given to Thomson by 'Ar. F' (probably his brother-in-law Arthur Fraser who was a merchant in Java)

Fragment of a bronze bracelet.

Wooden sword with two rows of sharks teeth mounted along the edges (one row along each edge). Plaited vegetable fibre through the handle.