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Painted and carved male ancestral figure with headdress

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1910

Turtle shaped amulet, North America, 1880-1920

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Bead necklace with stylized doll amulet fibre hair

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1860-1910

Plaited leather girdle with leather fringe, decora

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Medicine man's necklace, Kaffir, South African, 18

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1935

Gandan neck ring from the stem of the plantain tre

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Comb made of cane and secured by fibre with blue b

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1925

Three-dimensional carved wooden female figure, wea

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Circlet of hide decorated with small cowrie shells

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

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

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

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

Water Transport

1842-1851

Cover, Indian(?), beaded with canvas inner

Cover

Asian Medicine

Meerschaum tobacco pipe, cauldron bowl, large stub stem, no stem or mouthpiece, with silvered mounts, lid enamelled blue, bead covered, Southern Europe, 1840-1900

Meerschaum tobacco pipe, cauldron bowl, large stub

Smoking

1840-1900

Necklace of coloured glass beads and snake vertebrae, amuletic, from West Africa, 1880-1920

Necklace of coloured glass beads and snake vertebr

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Shrunken head with short hair, acquired in Venezuela in 1936

Shrunken head

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

before 1936

Amulets consisting of ornamental leather case, polychrome, worn by horses and donkeys, Persian (?), 1871-1910

Amulets consisting of ornamental leather case, pol

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Pendant of leopard's claw's joined by bead cuff, presented to court favourites by ruler of Nyoro, or by his chief wife, Nyoro, Ugangdan, 1880-1930

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Lip plug in form of wooden disc decorated with beads and shell pendant, used by Botocudo Indians, from East Brazil, 1801-1920

Lip plug in form of wooden disc decorated with bea

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1920