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Type: two pronged.

Stob-spade in wood, two pronged flat spade. Used for inserting straw in thatching.
Inscription: D

Still pot head, with two tubes or horns, one in copper and one in iron. 'Used by whisky smugglers'.

A photograph of the cast of Stella the Bajanella, from 1922, in an issue of Alma Mater

Neck-pendant, obverse represents figure with eyes inlaid with mother of pearl, cord in plaited vegetable fibre, toggle made of bird bone and decorated with incised hatching. Inscription: Label, ink, back: The E Tiki or Heir loom of the New…

Human statuette in sitting position, arms folded across chest.

Image of a Buddhist priest, in contemplative attitude, in bronze.

Small statue of Aesculapius. The head is classical, the body probably 19th century AD. Head given to Fordyce by Lord Bute (see Knight c.1840, MS M111 for two references to 'the head of Esculapius').