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Flying Scotsman hat

Miscellanea & Curiosities

2005-06

Bark apron from Medicine man's outfit

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1925

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

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Medicine man's necklace, Kaffir, South African, 18

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1935

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Sign possibly indicating a herbalist, China, 1901-1950

Asian Medicine

1901-1950

Medicine man's outfit

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1925

Cloth headdress resembling a tea-cosy, red cotton

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1900

Globe on stand for electrical experiments

King George III

1725-1775

Paper envelope containing a small pile of dried gr

Smoking

1801-1900

Cane combs, shallow teeth with 2 cross-tiers, deco

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Small brush for applying cosmetics

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Culpeper Compound microscope, with accessories, by Scarlett

Microscopes

1735-1745

Ten white feathers tied together with piece of bar

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Amulet consisting of polychrome ornamental leather

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Feathered sceptre, badge of rank, from New Hebride

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Bamboo amulet with plaited sennit and feathers

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Shrunken head with long hair, decorated with feather, acquired from Conibo tribe, Peru, 1900

Shrunken heads, South America, 19th century

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Eight feather pillows

Feather pillows

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

Smoking tube or snuff box, wooden tube coiled with hide thong, leather strap suspended and attached in a feather and leather stopper and leather pick case, Burrun tribe, Southern Sudan, 1871-1910

Smoking tube or snuff box

Smoking

1871-1910

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

Anaesthesiology

1870-1920

Two hospital weight feather pillows

Hospital weight feather pillows

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

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, long javelin with pointe

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1860-1900

Boar's tusk amulet, fish hook(?), with phallic-shaped quartz-crystal attached, from Sarawak, Borneo, 1870-1920

Boar's tusk amulet, fish hook(?), with phallic-sha

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Shrunken head with long hair, decorated with feathers, by Jivaro tribe, Ecuador

Shrunken head with long hair, decorated with feath

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

before 1928

Headdress, roughly circular hair and down bundle with short red feathers in top with plume of three long black feathers, African(?), 1880-1920

Headdress, roughly circular hair and down bundle w

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920