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Glass test-tube, stoppered with cork, containing sample of beads still strung together, mounted on a card label: 'Cloth of Beads from Mummy'. Inscription: Cloth of Beads from Mummy

Carved wooden club from Hawaii. Thomson's MS Catalogue: 'Carved club - very heavy - from Owhyee (Hawaji). Mr Walker S Davidson'.

One of five clubs listed in Reid, 1912. Circular disc-like end. James Edward Keith (1696 -1758), Younger brother of the last Earl Marischal of Scotland. Exiled for taking up arms against the Hanovarians in the 1715 uprising, he fled to the Continent,…

Club in hard wood. Handwritten addition to Museum's 'Slip Catalogue' reads: 'Said to have been brought from the New Hebrides by a christian missionary Peter Milne and presented by him to the Reverend Thomas Lockerby Wilson, first minister of the Free…

Club with carved decoration of plain and notched circular bands. Reid (1912): 'Used in killing boars in ceremonies.' Inscription: used in killing boars in ceremonies

Wooden club, decorated with carved human figure on handle. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'Club (Nambat Mol - little pig killing), ceremonial'.

18 specimens of Kimmeridge coal money.

Coat Newfoundland This long coat was made from pieces of sealskin sewn together and fastened with ivory toggles. It is made in a European style but using traditional Inuit materials and techniques. It is recorded as having been made for MacGregor by…