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Kayak, in seal skins sewed together with tendon and stretched over framework in pieces of redwood lashed together with strips of whalebone and hide. (Wooden girth and rope lashing round manhole modern - inserted 1900.)' Reported by Reid (1912) as…

Outrigger canoe, dugout, from breadfruit tree. Fore and aft taper to a spike. Dear Professor Lockhart, I am so glad to think of the Papuan (native) canoe in Marischal College with all the other New Guinea things (I feel sure it must be the only…

Figure carving on top of a long pole. Thomson's MS catalogue 1862: 'A long wooden idol placed in prow of canoe.' 92. Carved post. New Guinea, Humboldt Bay. The post belonged to Alexander Thomson of Banchory House, Aberdeen until his death in 1868. In…

Figure of the head of Sekhmet. A special chamber was consecrated in the temple of Mut at Thebes to this goddess. This head came from that chamber.

Group contents: sledges (8), Kayaks and dogs (10) and caribou and duck and humans (6)

Model of an Indian well, with two bullocks drawing water and fifteen Indian figures, all made in India.

Jadeite axe head, thin lenticular section, ancient breaks at blade end.

Flat axe head.

Anklet, in a spiral of brass wire. Paper label attached (see inscription. Inscription: Anklet Nyassaland Ogston Coll 1929 Vol II p4 (3)