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Flying Scotsman hat

2005

Feathered sceptre

1871-1920

Six birds feathers

1890-1920

Medicine man's necklace

1890-1935

Medicine man's outfit consisting of bark apron and leg bands

1881-1925

Purple Rain 4

2017

Paper envelope containing a small pile of dried grass and feather tinder

1801-1900

Canary resuscitator

1920-1930

Model of the British Admiralty Boardroom, showing the Navy Board's presentation to King Charles II for the 1677 Thirty-Ship Shipbuilding Programme

1960

Two-headed foot soldier character puppet

1998

Cloth headdress resembling a tea-cosy

1880-1900

Bamboo amulet with plaited sennit and feathers

1871-1920

Globe on stand for electrical experiments

1725-1775

Small brush for applying cosmetics

1801-1900

Smoking tube or snuff box

1871-1910

Model of a Basesse Canoe from Lake Victoria

1900-1927

Boar's tusk amulet

1870-1920

Container for nkisi force with feather headdress, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1890-1925

1890-1925

Ten white feathers tied together with piece of bark

1871-1920

Sign possibly indicating a herbalist, China, 1901-1950

1901-1950

Purple Rain 3

2017

Parvati - Hindu Goddess

2017

Cane combs

Amulet consisting of polychrome ornamental leather case worn by horns and donkeys

1871-1910

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Haathi - Dynamic Elephant

2017
Carved wooden coup stick, long javelin with pointed ends, surmounted by tuft of coloured feathers bound with leaves, plains Indian, maker, U.S.A., 1860-1900

Carved wooden coup stick

1860-1900
Animation set constructed for film `The Final Communique' by Gail Thomas, commissioned by Channel 4. Comprising set in six parts and model with sundries, 1996

Animation set constructed for film 'The Final Communique' by Gail Thomas

1995-1996
Face mask and bottle from Junker's apparatus for chloroform anaesthesia, by Krohne and Sesemann, English, 1870-1920

Face mask and bottle from Junker's apparatus for chloroform anaesthesia

1870-1920
Tsantsa (shrunken head) with long hair, decorated with feather, acquired from Conibo people living on the Rio Pachitea, a tributary of the Rio Ucayali, Peru, 1900

Tsantsa (shrunken head), Peru, 1900

1801-1900
Shrunken head with long hair, decorated with feathers, by Jivaro tribe, Ecuador

Shrunken head with long hair

before 1928
Headdress, roughly circular hair and down bundle with short red feathers in top with plume of three long black feathers, African(?), 1880-1920

Headdress, hair and down bundle with short red feather sand plume of three long black feathers

1880-1920
`Guinea and Feather' apparatus, consisting of a glass tube with a brass stopcock at one end and a large threaded brass plug at the other and containing a feather and a piece of metal

`Guinea and Feather' apparatus

1900-1949
Model, scale approximately 1:18, of a Maori dug-out war canoe with feathered decoration, unsigned, New Zealand, 1922-1932. This is similar to Maori dug-out war canoes used in the South Island, New Zealand.

Small model of a New Zealand war canoe

1922-1932
Horn whistle with a feather inside and a hanging loop attached, Sudan, Africa, 1871-1910. Used in rites to exorcise or frighten evil spirits.

Horn whistle with a feather inside and a hanging loop attached

1871-1910
Physiological apparatus used by Dr. Griffith Pugh during the Everest expedition, 1953

Physiological apparatus used by Dr. Griffith Pugh during the Everest expedition

1950-1953