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Painted and carved male ancestral figure with headdress

1851-1910

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

1801-1920

Plaited leather girdle with leather fringe

1880-1920

Circlet of hide decorated with small cowrie shells and red beads

1880-1920

Four flasks in oblong fringed cushion

1801-1910

Medicine man's necklace

1890-1935

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

1880-1930

Comb made of cane and secured by fibre with blue beads

1881-1925

Bead necklace with stylized doll amulet fibre hair doll covered in multi-coloured beadwork

1860-1910

Gandan neck ring from the stem of the plantain tree

1880-1925

Three-dimensional carved wooden female figure

1880-1920

Ear pendant, plaque of coloured beadwork

1880-1930

Necklace of coloured glass beads and snake vertebrae

1880-1920

Amulets consisting of ornamental leather case

1871-1910

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1840-1900

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

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

1842-1851
8-inch diameter glass sphere containing Ballotini beads, 1968

Glass sphere containing beads

1968
Shrunken head with short hair, acquired in Venezuela in 1936

Shrunken head with short hair

before 1936
Amulet in form of a turtle, made of hide decorated with beading. Worn by girl children around neck to ward off illness, Sioux Indians, USA, 1880-1920

Turtle shaped amulet, North America, 1880-1920

1880-1920