belt made from spun and woven wool, dyed with cochineal. Ends of the belt are tassled. Old Label "belt in native red and white wool dyed with native cochineal. Chaco Paraguay. Presnted by Dr J.W. Lindsay 1909 in catalogue p 272 (201). Native spun…
Figure of Bes (imperfect), probably belonged to a piece of furniture, perhaps a bed. Reid (1912):'Bes was a popular deity and was represented as a dwarf with bow legs and wearing the skin of a leopard and on his head a crown of feathers.'
Container made of a medium sized fat vessel shaped gourd (calabash) in a faded orange-brown colour with matt surface. Stopper made of a section of white-coloured, naturally patterned conus shell with several large shiny red seeds pressed into a dark…
Brose bowl or 'bicker tartie' bowl, bucket-shaped, made from 14 wooden staves (2 of the staves form lugs or handles), flat base, and bound with two iron bands.