Image
Category
Collection
Maker
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Circular lid for wooden milk-pot made of woven grass

1880-1920

Headdress resembling an old naval officers cap

1880-1900

Penis sheath made from thick grasses with cord pommel at end

1900-1930

Dried grss and wood penis sheath

1900-1925

Medicine man's bag reputedly containing bundles of dried grass

1890-1930

Amulet case of stitched reptile skin suspended fron string

1880-1920

Part of medicine man's equipment

1880-1928

Constricting belt made from double band of split cane spiralling round waist

1871-1920

Bundle of grasses used as brush for sweeping up a baby's stools (olukatero lokukombo okana)

1860-1910

Model of small Burmese rice-boat, with carved steersman's seat and mat tilt

1814-1929

Model of surf-raft

1800-1896; 1958

Figure of leper

1880-1920

Medicine man's outfit from the Congo with Combined mask and headdress

Medicine man's outfit from the Congo

Tubular cane salt container, with finely woven cover and lid, Ugandan, 1890-1925

Tubular cane salt container

1890-1925

Leather amulet decorated with woven leather and grass, suspended from leather cord, African, 1880-1920

Leather amulet decorated with woven leather and grass

1880-1920

Small pottery figurine of a girl in her initiation costume swathed in plaited grass coil and leather skirt with apron at front, Sotho, Basutholand, 1880-1910

Small pottery figurine of a girl in initiation costume

1880-1910

Model of temple hut, New Caledonia, 1830-1925

Model of temple hut

1830-1925

Five pieces of broad grass or straw rolled up into strings and tied with thinner grass string, Acholi maker, Ankole Kingdom, Northern Uganda, 1880-1935

Five pieces of broad grass or straw rolled up into strings and tied with thinner grass string

1880-1935

Dancer's dress worn by members of the Egbo or Ekkpe secret society, Ekoi, Southern Nigerian, 1880-1920

Dancer's dress worn by members of the Egbo or Ekkpe secret society

1880-1920

Medicine man's bag, woven grass fibre and short sling, hung with pegs etc., containing numerous stuffed cotton bags, Congolese, 1870-1920

Medicine man's bag

1870-1920

Long iron spike or bayonet riveted to an animal horn, like from the Taurotragus genus, fitted at end with human lower mandible, hollow of horn filled with grasses, African, 1880-1915

Ethnographic object

1880-1915

Some grass (?) and root (?), pan-yin in vernacular, from Burma, 1909

Some grass (?) and root (?), pan-yin in vernacular

1909

Pieces of dried grass, pan-yin, from Burma, 1908

Pieces of dried grass, pan-yin, from Burma, 1908

1908

Painted wooden figures, a funeral procesion, two bearers, one carrying an adze, the other with two bashers, wooden coffin slung from bamboo pole, Chinese, 1880-1920

Figures of a funeral procesion

1880-1920

Some grass and root, pim-yin, from Burma, 1904 to 1909

Some grass and root

1904-1909

Belt, possibly amuletic made of snake vertebrae threaded on stiff grass, partly covered in red cloth, Zulu, South African, 1890-1930

Belt, possibly amuletic made of snake vertebrae threaded on stiff grass

1890-1930

Plaited canework baby carrier, wooden base, covered with grasses secured by cane mesh, separate wooden yoke, for carrying on the back, abor, Assam, Indian, 1880-1915

Baby carrier

1880-1915

Length of chain made of Grass Rope.

Length of Chain made of Grass Rope.

Contents of a medicine man's pouch or bag, including fragments of leaves and grasses, stones, minerals and metal hook, African, 1880-1920

Contents of a medicine man's pouch or bag

1880-1920

Pieces of dried grass, plantago major, supplied by Potter and Clarke Ltd., London and Manchester, English, 1901-1930

Pieces of dried grass

Six beer drinking tubes, of cane and grass in woven grass basket, Uganda, Africa, 1880-1920

Six beer drinking tubes

1880-1920

Plaited grass basket or "Mkwijua". Flat bottom, high sides, rounded at ends, originally part of Medicine Man's outfit, containing gourch bones, shells etc., Bondei tribe, Tanganyika, 1871-1900

Plaited grass basket or "Mkwijua". Flat bottom

1871-1900

Corrobboree wand or "yai-iua", long roll made by strands and folds of dried grass and paper bark tightly bound together with hair string, coated with lime and surmounted by tuff of feathers, for healing backache, Kakadu tribe N. Australia, 1880-1920

Corrobboree wand or "yai-iua"

1880-1920

Grass basket, covered in skin, containing bundle of bark

Grass basket

Witch doctors headdress, Central East African, 1870-1920

Witch doctors headdress

1870-1920

Grass skirt from the Congo

Grass skirt from the Congo

Grass collar from the Congo

Grass collar from the Congo

Medicine man's outfit, plaited string dress with hood, arms and legs, Southern Nigerian, 1880-1918

Medicine man's outfit

1880-1918