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Flying Scotsman hat

2005

Canary resuscitator

1920-1930

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

1701-1800

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

Medicine man's necklace

1890-1935

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

1881-1925

Boar's tusk amulet

1870-1920

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

1890-1925

Cane combs

Bamboo amulet with plaited sennit and feathers

1871-1920

Sign possibly indicating a herbalist, China, 1901-1950

1901-1950

Globe on stand for electrical experiments

1725-1775

Small brush for applying cosmetics

1801-1900

Feathered sceptre

1871-1920

Six birds feathers

1890-1920

Smoking tube or snuff box

1871-1910

Model of a Basesse Canoe from Lake Victoria

1900-1927

Cloth headdress resembling a tea-cosy

1880-1900

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

1871-1910

Ten white feathers tied together with piece of bark

1871-1920

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

1801-1900

Parvati - Hindu Goddess

2017

Purple Rain 4

2017

Haathi - Dynamic Elephant

2017

Purple Rain 3

2017

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

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

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

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

Tsantsa (shrunken head) with long hair, decorated with feather ornaments, Shuar, Ecuador, 1801-1900

Tsantsa with long hair

1801-1900

Cycle Celebration Kit for She-Who-Cycles, containing: The Little Cycle Celebration Book; She Who Cycles Greeting Card; The PMS Self-Help Booklet; instructions and materials for creating soft doll; 'Magic, Mystery & Celebration' kit, a New Cycle Product, The Menstrual Health Foundation, Santa Rosa, California, 1991-1999

Cycle Celebration Kit for She-Who-Cycles

1991-1999

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

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

Tsantsa (shrunken head) with long hair, decorated with feather ornaments and bird's heads, Shuar, Ecuador, before 1925

Tsantsa with long hair, decorated with feather ornaments and bird's heads

before 1925

Tsantsa (shrunken head) with long hair, decorated with feather ornaments and beads, Shuar, Ecuador, 1801-1900

Tsantsa with long hair, with feather and bead ornaments

1801-1900

'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

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

Tsantsa (shrunken head) with short hair, decorated with feathers and bead necklet, Shuar, Ecuador, before 1931

Tsantsa with short hair, decorated with feathers and bead necklet

before 1931

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

Tsantsa (shrunken head) with long hair, decorated with feather ornaments, Shuar, Ecuador, before 1941

Tsantsa with long hair and feather ornaments

before 1941

Tsantsa (shrunken head) with long hair, decorated with feathers, Shuar, Ecuador, before 1933

Tsantsa with long hair

before 1933

Tsantsa (shrunken head) with long hair and feather ornaments, Shuar, Ecuador

Tsantsa with long hair and feather ornaments

before 1931

Tsantsa (shrunken head) with long hair, decorated with feather and bead ornaments, Shuar, Ecuador, before 1928

Tsantsa with long hair and feather ornaments

before 1928

Tsantsa (shrunken head) with long hair, decorated with beads and feather ornaments, Shuar, Ecuador, before 1941

Tsantsa with long hair, decorated with beads and feathers

before 1941

Tsantsa (shrunken head) with long hair and feather ornaments, Shuar, Ecuador, before 1931

Tsantsa with long hair and feather ornaments

before 1931

Tsantsa (shrunken head) with plaited hair and facial hair, decorated with feathers, Shuar, Ecuador, before 1929

Tsantsa with plaited hair and feather decoration

before 1929