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3 wood & metal plate holders with inscription on them. Also over 50 gelatin filters.

Long thin cone-shaped basket, woven from thin dried twigs, bound together at base with dried grasses and held together at intervals with strips of dried plant material. Used as a mousetrap. Piece of styrofoam inside.

Metal cased lamp with power cables and bulb. Plate on side with engraving on it. With screw hole for stand so can be angled and a sight on top. Bulb had 10 V engraved on it.

Custom-made wooden box with brass coloured hindges containing an apparatus for levelling angles. Instrument is rectangular in shape with brass components with two view finders in top corners; pendulum-type gauge which measures "inclination per FOOT"…

Leitz Wetzlar bench microscope No. 150364 with calibrated travelling stage and 3 objectives. Box.

small bone (phalanx - probably of deer) with cloth and wool tied round it. This doll has brown thread wrapped around it. Old Label - "Used by Lengua Indian children. Presented by Dr. J.W. Lindsay, Paraguay 1909"

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…

Old label "NET BAG USED BY LENGUA INDIANS. CHACO PARAGUAY". Net-bag in native cord , made from fuber of 'Caraguata' (Bromelia, Argentina) Presented by Dr. J.W. Lindsay, Paraguay, 1909.

Old label "SPINDLE USE D BY LENGUA INDIANS. CHACO, PARAGUAY". With gourd as whorl for spindle for spinning wool, in wood. Presented by Dr. J.W. Lindsay, Paraguay, 1909. There are some remains of wool on the spindle.