Browse Items (3400 total)

triple disc crescent & V-rod

Oil painting, portrait, near full, armoured, light dress sword, R hand on helmet and holding Marshall's baton. Keith (1696-1758), MA Marischal College 1715. This portrait is glazed. Inscription: On back: pinct a Paris par B Belle 1724. Name plate on…

Shale pipe, carved with figures and an umbrella. Panel pipe combining both Haida and Euopean-American motifs.

Part of a tobacco pipe made from a calabash. Illustrated in Ogston (1884-1929) Volume 1.

Plaid worn by Prince Charles Edward Stewart three days before the battle of Culloden. The Prince, when visiting a family, usually presented the plaid he wore to the lady of the house who gave him, in return, one made by herself. Displayed with gold…

Shallow, oval platter with anthropomorphic handles at each end; one handle has raised stylised head in centre of open, oval, serrated fish-tail, the other handle has a similar head but face broken away. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'Illustrated on page…

Magic lantern, or projector in iron. An oil-burning lamp, circular, well-ventilated with a single handle and provision for insertion of slides. There is a removable condenser and a front lens with metal lens cover. Catalogued 1971, but acquired…

Leather purse, in tanned leather with green leather decoration, and tooled geometric design on the front flap. Long leather strap (to be worn around the neck).

Ceremonial rattle in the form of a bird (raven), decoration in black, red and blue paint. The meaning of the figure group is unknown, although the theme of the frog holding the man's tongue has been interpreted to signify communication or transfer of…

Specimen of ash in a glass test-tube, with cork stopper, mounted on a card label: 'Finest shower of ash, Pompei'. Inscription: Hand-written label: Finest shower of ash Pompei