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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.'

Part of a large bronze clasp/brooch/fibula.

Quill-worked chair seat, geometric pattern, circles and arch; multi-coloured

Cotton cap, worn by male peasants. Colour: white and beige. Middle decoration: smock work and zig-zag embroidery.

Outrigger canoe, dugout, from breadfruit tree. Fore and aft taper to a spike. Dear Professor Lockhart, I am so glad to think of the Papuan (native) canoe in Marischal College with all the other New Guinea things (I feel sure it must be the only…

Seven branched, for oil and wick.

Image of the Buddha, in earth-pointing attitude, in silver.

Breast plate made of trochus shell and sections of teeth of sperm whale, with cord of strips of coloured cotton for suspension. Structure: boss in shell edged with ivory (4 pieces & serrated), with central oranment (ivory & lunate), coloured cloth…

Wooden box, encircling band painted yellow with mutilated inscription, containing ushabti figures in clay.

Wooden box for ushabti figures, with inscription signifying: 'the prophet of Mentu, lord of Thebes, Hor, son of the beloved of the god, the opener of the gates, Hor-em-Apt-asut, son of the prophet of Amon in Apt-asut, Auf.'