Browse Items (3473 total)

Knife or sita, made of shell. Slip: 'Found when the people were clearing land for their annual yam planting.'

Warded key.

Small vessel/cup in the shape of a frog (possibly a toy?), grey clay. One of four vessels in McPherson's collection (a9A-D) in the shape of animals (duck, frog, large dog, small dog).

Wooden house board, carved and painted in red, white and black, motif: scroll pattern and dolphins.

Leather cap (bearskin or buckskin?) with silk ribbon, and beaded scalp-lock ornaments.

Hawaiian war-god, in basketwork, decorated with red and black feathers, and dog teeth.

Harp with wooden frame, strings in 'tie-tie' and a gourd acting as resonator.

Wooden board carved with 12 circular depressions, two half-circular depressions, to hold seeds. Used in the game 'kyngee bel' or 'keya' or 'wari-wari' played all over West Africa.

Fragments (2) with list of foods offered to the deceased, in relief, black, red, green, and blue colours well preserved.

Figurine in red pottery of female holding a child; style known as the Mexican Madonna.