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Painted and carved male ancestral figure with headdress

1851-1910

Lip plug in form of wooden disc decorated with beads and shell pendant

1801-1920

Circlet of hide decorated with small cowrie shells and red beads

1880-1920

Medicine man's necklace

1890-1935

Pendant of leopard's claw's joined by bead cuff

1880-1930

Four flasks in oblong fringed cushion

1801-1910

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Plaited leather girdle with leather fringe

1880-1920

Ear pendant, plaque of coloured beadwork

1880-1930

Necklace of coloured glass beads and snake vertebrae

1880-1920

Amulets consisting of ornamental leather case

1871-1910

Comb made of cane and secured by fibre with blue beads

1881-1925

Three-dimensional carved wooden female figure

1880-1920

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1840-1900

Bead necklace with stylized doll amulet fibre hair doll covered in multi-coloured beadwork

1860-1910

Gandan neck ring from the stem of the plantain tree

1880-1925

Double-sided brass comb with curved ends, decorated with chased pattern depicting scenes from the seraglio, Persian, 1801-1910.

1801-1910
Model, scale 1:18, of a 'Batil', an Arab trading vessel used on the Omani coast for pearl fishing, with two masts (raking forward) and lateen sails, by Deerjeebhoy Merwanjee, Bombay, Salsette Island, Maharashtra, India, 1842-1851. Deerjeebhoy Merwanjee built the model from a beam of the 'Cornwallis', which was built in 1788 of Malabar teak.

Model of a 'Batil', Arab trading vessel

1842-1851
Amulet in form of a turtle, made of hide decorated with beading. Worn by girl children around neck to ward off illness, Sioux Indians, USA, 1880-1920

Turtle shaped amulet, North America, 1880-1920

1880-1920
Shrunken head with short hair, acquired in Venezuela in 1936

Shrunken head with short hair

before 1936
8-inch diameter glass sphere containing Ballotini beads, 1968

Glass sphere containing beads

1968