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Grey metallic sample of arsenic ore.
Native Arsenic

Image of opium pipe made of wood, ivory, and metal.
Part of an opium smokers outfit, in laquered bamboo, with ivory terminals and white metal bowl.

Bottle of whisky in decorative presentation box.
Aberdeen University Quincentenary whisky in presentation box

Image of an early 20th century radium compress encased in a protective container.
Used for treating rheumatism

Image of Tipiti, a cylindrical device made of vegetable fibre to process cassava.
used for making cassava (manioc)

Image of the tip of a poison dart.
Poison Dart contained within a glass tube with bungs at either end. Curare poison dart from the Amazon Valley. The tip is smeared with the Curare poison; the shaft is a slender tapered splinter of bamboo; it is feathered by some downy fibre wrapped…

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cylindrical box containing 14 poison-tipped arrows, quills attached to box with twine. Old label: Bamboo box, containing poisoned arrows, British Guinea." Presented by Alexander Stuart, 1887

Image of tobacco pipe made from bamboo and rattan with a decorative plaited vegetable fibre.
Large tobacco pipe in bamboo with pokerwork decoration. The pipe is cylindrical and quite long and wide, with a round hole at one end, a shallow bowl-shape at the other and a very small round hole beneath with no attachment. The decorated section…

Image of dried specimen of yew.
Dried plant specimen. Label headed 'Flora Britannica'
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