Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Flying Scotsman hat

2005

Six birds feathers

1890-1920

Paper envelope containing a small pile of dried grass and feather tinder

1801-1900

Canary resuscitator

1920-1930

Medicine man's outfit consisting of bark apron and leg bands

1881-1925

Model of the British Admiralty Boardroom, showing the Navy Board's presentation to King Charles II for the 1677 Thirty-Ship Shipbuilding Programme

1960

Medicine man's necklace

1890-1935

Bamboo amulet with plaited sennit and feathers

1871-1920

Feathered sceptre

1871-1920

Cloth headdress resembling a tea-cosy

1880-1900

Cane combs

Globe on stand for electrical experiments

1725-1775

Sign possibly indicating a herbalist, China, 1901-1950

1901-1950

Ten white feathers tied together with piece of bark

1871-1920

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

1890-1925

Boar's tusk amulet

1870-1920

Amulet consisting of polychrome ornamental leather case worn by horns and donkeys

1871-1910

Small brush for applying cosmetics

1801-1900

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

1701-1800

Parvati - Hindu Goddess

2017

Smoking tube or snuff box

1871-1910

Model of a Basesse Canoe from Lake Victoria

1900-1927

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

Headdress, hair and down bundle with short red feather sand plume of three long black feathers

1880-1920

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

Shrunken head with long hair

before 1928

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

Shrunken heads, South America, 19th century

1801-1900

Animation set constructed for film `The Final Communique' by Gail Thomas, commissioned by Channel 4. Comprising set in six parts and model with sundries, 1996

Animation set constructed for film 'The Final Communique' by Gail Thomas

1995-1996

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

1870-1920

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

1860-1900

`Guinea and Feather' apparatus, consisting of a glass tube with a brass stopcock at one end and a large threaded brass plug at the other and containing a feather and a piece of metal

`Guinea and Feather' apparatus

1900-1949

Horn whistle with a feather inside and a hanging loop attached, Sudan, Africa, 1871-1910. Used in rites to exorcise or frighten evil spirits.

Horn whistle with a feather inside and a hanging loop attached

1871-1910

Physiological apparatus used by Dr. Griffith Pugh during the Everest expedition, 1953

Physiological apparatus used by Dr. Griffith Pugh during the Everest expedition

1950-1953

Model, scale approximately 1:18, of a Maori dug-out war canoe with feathered decoration, unsigned, New Zealand, 1922-1932. This is similar to Maori dug-out war canoes used in the South Island, New Zealand.

Small model of a New Zealand war canoe

1922-1932

Mixed-media collage 'Haathi - Dynamic Elephant' by Chila Kumari Burman, 2017, showing an elephant facing left, highly embellished. The frame embellished with mirror pieces. Made of cotton fabric shapes, plastic beads, plastic gems, mirror pieces, peacock feathers, gold-textured wrapping paper, metal pins, rhinestones, glitter, plastic fridge magnets

Haathi - Dynamic Elephant

2017