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Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

Asian Medicine

1701-1800

Treatment for sores caused by syphilis, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1880-1890

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1890

De Saussure Hair Hygrometer, 1815-1841

Meteorology

1815-1841

Replica of Phipps and Irving insulated water bottle of 1773

Oceanography

1773 (original)

'Spinal Babies' poem, England, 1950-1970

Orthopaedics

1950-1970

Brass stereotaxic apparatus, English, c. 1905.

Surgery

1900-1910

Model to Demonstrate Combination of Tidal Constituents, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Wooden statue showing childbirth, Angola, 1801-1900

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

"S-phone" type 13/Mk IV personal portable UHF tranmitter/receiver with display "torso", 1942-1945

Radio Communication

1942-1945

Tonkotsu with lid linked to netsuke via ojime

Asian Medicine

1880-1929

Sagemono in pouch

Asian Medicine

1700-1850

microphone and headset for "S-phone" transceiver, 1942-1945

Radio Communication

1942-1945

Inro with ojime and netsuke, Japan, before 1915

Asian Medicine

before 1915

Device to apply plaster casts, England, 1910-1925

Orthopaedics

1910-1925

Red leather amulet case, suspended on fine cord, w

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Twisted leather cord with steel bell, animal horn

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Eleven snakeskin amulet cases stitched to fibre co

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Medicine man's amulet made of antelope horn with g

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Carved wooden snuff or perfume container, bulbous

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Mat of reeds framed with glass copper and brass be

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1900

Medicine man's rattle, wooden peg-like handle thre

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Sagemono with three departments

Asian Medicine

1880-1915

Tonkotsu wwith lid attached to netsuke via ojime

Asian Medicine

1880-1929

Tobacco pipe with case linked to tonkotsu via ojime

Asian Medicine

1880-1915

Pedometer, German, 1795-1805

Surveying

1795-1805

Penis sheath made from thick grasses with cord pom

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Iron ring on which are threaded 10 cone shaped peg

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Turned wooden post supporting an apothecary's bala

Pharmacy-ware

1850-1900

Amulet worn by a derstee of the small pox spirit

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Tobacco pipe with case, linked by skull ojime to tonkotsu

Asian Medicine

1880-1915

Cylindrical amulet case with charm inside

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Perfume bottle with cord for suspension

Asian Medicine

Tobacco pipe case

Asian Medicine

1880-1915

Bark cloth roll containing two dried leaves of tob

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Dried grss and wood penis sheath, rocket shaped, f

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1925

Grass basketry penis sheath covered with brown and

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Penis sheath made from strips of reed, flattened s

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Grass basketry penis sheath covered in reed strand

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Ivory pestle

Pharmacy-ware

Cowrie shell necklace with fine beadwork bag suspe

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Metal scales, iron beam with circular bronze pans,

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Amber and copper bead necklace with pendant suspen

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1915

Piece of orvis root on twisted cord used for teeth

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1913

Two amuletic animal teeth suspended from black cor

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Carved wooden snuff box, barrel-shaped, with conic

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Cluster of cane tubes bound together to form cylin

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1860-1920

Tobacco pipe with case linked to tonkotsu via ojime

Asian Medicine

1880-1915

Tobacco pouch with tobacco, linked to case via ojime

Asian Medicine

1870-1915