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Battle-axe with steel blade, inlaid with brass, ornamented with gilded figure of a lion, handle in wood.

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One of a pair of daggers, made of 'buffalo's horn' (Michie 1887), hilt decorated with circles and dots.

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Item: dagger knife
Catalogue#: ABDUA 63820
One of a pair of daggers, made of 'buffalo's horn' (Michie 1887), hilt decorated with circles and dots. Old hand-written label on hilt. Inscription: Label: East Indian Daggers made of Buffalo's Horn

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Eighteen models of musical instruments, made after court patterns.

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Marble fragment with Arabic name Madha-Ibd-Ilmarka. Old label in ink on side of stone: Asia 3

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Tombstone (imperfect) in white stone with inscription and turban-like top. This is probably one of the 'Two Tombstones of white marble from Turkish Burying Grounds' presented by Capt James Brebner, Aberdeen, 1805 mentioned in Knight, W, 1840,…

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'Part of a relievo of Grecian sculpture, in white marble' - reference in Knight's handwritten catalogue, c. 1840, under 'Antiquities' but no reference in 1887 King's College Catalogue, nor in Reid's 1912 Catalogue.

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Rectangular shaped piece of tapa with a hole in the centre, and patches (strips), decoration: pattern of short red lines. Hunt (1981): 'A poncho-like garment made by a daughter of one of the Tahitian women who accompanied the bounty mutineers to…

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Image of Ganapati (Lord of Hosts) or Ganesha, son of Siva, in granite.

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Coat or jerkin in buff leather. Worn in the time of Charles I. Sent from Hungary to David Stuart of Inchbreck by one of his family in 1650.
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