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Amulet and charm to protect against plague

1690-1710

Sealed glass disc containing specimen of crotolaaria

1880-1930

Necklace, shells and seed threaded on cotton cord with depilatory forceps attached

500-1650

Necklace, amuletic, incomplete

1880-1935

Small orange gourd

1880-1920

Six containers of beetle chitin and seeds suspended on beaded and twisted fibre strings

1880-1920

Amulet, protective comprising small whistles made from twigs

1880-1930

Seed microscope (simple)

Amulet, 6 elongated iron cones filled with abrus ?

1880-1930
4 large dried seeds, worm-eaten, no provenance details, 1850 to 1930

4 large dried seeds

1850-1930
seeds of henbane, 1851 to 1930, no provenance details

seeds of henbane

1851-1930
Chilli pods, one burst, used by Napache Indians, South American, 1880-1935

Chilli pods

1880-1935
Small dried seeds in polythene bag, from India(?), 1851-1930

Small dried seeds in polythene bag

1851-1930
Quantity of kombe or strophanthus hispidus seeds from Gold Coast, used by Ashanti for constipation, from Ghana, 1870-1930

Quantity of kombe or strophanthus hispidus seeds from Gold Coast

1870-1930
Amuletic leglet, woven fibre and seeds with seed, nut and human bone fringe, mounted on cardboard, Upper Amazon, South American, 1870-1935

Amuletic leglet

1870-1935
Sealed glass container holding ears of barley, Egyptian, 1000BC to 100AD

Sealed glass container holding ears of barley

1000 BCE-100 CE
Necklace, amuletic in form of bundle of fragments of wood, bone, metal, lizard skin, lizard foot, etc., Abyssinian, 1890-1930

Necklace, amuletic in form of bundle of fragments of wood

1890-1930
Wide belt of black and white seeds with pendant humming birds, South American, 1850-1927

Belt with pendant humming bird

1850-1927
Specimen cocks-comb seeds in greaseproof bag, taken for diarrhoea, Kasai tribe, user, Congolese, 1860-1900

Specimen cocks-comb seeds in greaseproof bag

1860-1900
Shrunken head with short hair, acquired in Venezuela in 1936

Shrunken head with short hair

before 1936