Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Amulet, whelk shell with reversed spiral

1850-1920

Brooch to avert the evil eye

1900-1914

Calabash rattle, Nigeria, 1851-1920

1851-1920

Shell pendant painted with an eye

1850-1920

Tortoise carapace amulet

1880-1930

Ear trumpet made from shell

1850-1900

Model of an Esquimaux, or Inuit kayak

1915-1925

Witch doctors amulet

1880-1930

Shell pubic shield

Statue of stylised bird head with man body

X-Ray Photograph of Two Shells

Small solid bronze amulet

200 BCE-200 CE

Amuletic bundle

1880-1920

Circular amulet

1880-1930

Silver finger ring

Labret, funnel shaped composition of shell

1831-1920

Medicine man's belt comprising snake vertebrae threaded onto string

1880-1920

Broken lip stub

1851-1930

Brass spoon

Wooden staff

Woven fibre medicine man's bag containing cloth

1871-1920

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

1801-1920

Knife, steel and shell

Medicine man's circlet of hide and wood decorated with beads and cowrie shell

1880-1920

Twisted horn amulet

1850-1920

3 pendant amulets

1801-1920

Lancet, steel, in shell sheath, 18th century

1701-1800

Knife, steel and shell, 18th century

1701-1800

Knife, steel and shell, 18th century

1701-1800

Amuletic pendant in form of hand in fig gesture

1851-1935

Necklace, amuletic, cloth covered packet of medicine with 2 cowrie shells sewn on

Amulet carved form shell, in form of curved horn and skull

1850-1920

Lancet, steel, in shell case, 18th century

1701-1800

Lancet, steel, in shell sheath, 1600-1800

1600-1800

Scalpel, steel, folding

1801-1900

2 medicine containers made from boars's tusks

Scoop, shell, Middle Eastern

Wooden feeding funnel

1871-1931

Nose pin

1891-1930

Nose pin

1891-1930

Whelk-type shell worn to ensure easy delivery of a healthy child used to all kinds of food

1880-1920

Metal tie or hat pin with shell knob

Bone tiki

1871-1934

Shell, with perforated side and bark loop

1871-1910

Wooden tiki

1871-1925

Shell pubic shield, Niol Niol Tribe, Australia

before 1929

Grave ornament consisting of shell grille carved from giant clam shell

1701-1910

Green jade tiki

1871-1928

Man's pubic cover made of shield-shaped shell on bark thong

1881-1920

Cloth bag

1880-1920