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Green jade tiki, with eyes filled with sealing wax

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1929

Amulet dish with pendant

Asian Medicine

1850-1910

Green jade tiki, Maori, New Zealand, late 19th to

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1929

Ornamental sword with Chinese characters on blade

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Female diagnostic figure to indicate areas of affliction

Asian Medicine

Amulet

Asian Medicine

Rectangular amulet

Asian Medicine

Netsuke in form of reclining child

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Disc-shaped pi, symbol of heaven

Asian Medicine

Amulet with engraved script

Asian Medicine

Clasp carved in high relief

Asian Medicine

Han period carved sceptre

Asian Medicine

206-221CE

Opium pipe

Smoking

Amulet in form of animal

Asian Medicine

Circumcision knife, folding, with bronze blade

Surgery

201-300

Jade blade, with 4 prongs, lashed to bone haft, Ma

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Ornamental sword with curved blade carved with Chinese characters and circular grip

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Amuletic disc

Asian Medicine

Ornamental sword with decorated blade

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Buddhist priests jewel of office

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Clasp carved with dragon's head

Asian Medicine

Snuff bottle with stopper

Asian Medicine

Bamboo opium pipe, cylindrical with hands of nodes, ivory mounts on each end, metal mount with white jade bowl towards distal end, Chinese

Cylindrical opium pipe with hands of nodes

Asian Medicine

Jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold ring for suspension, Maroi, New Zealand, 1871-1930

Jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold ring f

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold loop for suspension, Maori, New Zealand, 1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untradionally small, Maori, New Zealand, late 19th to 20th centuries

Green jade tiki, untradionally small, Maori, New Z

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with loop for suspension, Maori, New Zealand, late 19th to 20th centuries

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with loop

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold loop for suspension, Maori, New Zealand, 1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold loop for suspension, Maori, New Zealand, late 19th to 20th centuries

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, gold loop for suspension, Maori, New Zealand, late 19th to 20th centuries

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, gold loop

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold loop for suspension, Maori, New Zealand, 1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Jade back scratcher, cylindrical stem mounted with silver, distal end terminating in a hand, possibly Chinese

Jade back scratcher, cylindrical stem mounted with silver

Asian Medicine

Green jade tiki, with inlaid shell eye New Zealand, Maori, 1871-1928

Green jade tiki, with inlaid shell eye New Zealand

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1928

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, Maori, New Zealand, 1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, Maori, New

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold loop for suspension, Maori, New Zealand, late 19th to 20th centuries

Jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold loop f

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Small jade tiki, with sealing wax eyes and gold rings for suspension, Maori, New Zealand, late 19th to 20th centuries

Small jade tiki, with sealing wax eyes and gold ri

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold loop for suspension, Maori, New Zealand, 1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, Maori, New Zealand, late 19th to 20th centuries

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, Maori, New

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold suspension ring, Maori, New Zealand, 1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Rectangular stone cosmetics (?) bottle, oval base and tubular neck, carved Chinese (?) characters on front and back, probably Chinese, 1801-1900

Cosmetics bottle with carved Chinese characters

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

White jade spoon, Chinese

Spoon

Asian Medicine

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold suspension ring, Maori, New Zealand, late 19th to 20th centuries

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold loop for suspension, Maori, New Zealand, late 19th to 20th centuries

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold ring for suspension, Maori, New Zealand, 1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold loop for suspension, Maori, New Zealand, 1871-1930

Green jade tiki, untraditionally small, with gold

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1930

Carved wood tonkatsu, inlaid lotus leaf, snail and lotus flower on side, detachable lid with inlaid lotus leaf and frog, on cord, elliptical ojime, carved wood frog netsuke, Japanese, 1700-1850 auction sale label stuck inside box reads: "A tobacco pouch, carved in wood, enriched with jade and faience decorated with lotus flower and frog - 17th century in the Ritsuo style"

Tonkotsu with ojime and frog netsuke

Asian Medicine

1700-1850

Circumcision knife, plain polished jade, rectangular rim levelled cutting edge and pierced with one hole, Inca, from Peru, c.1800

Circumcision knife

Surgery

Carved wood tonkatsu (tobacco pouch), linked by cord to spherical ojime and disc like netsuke, Ainu, Northern Japan, 1880-1910

Tonkotsu linked to spherical ojime and netsuke

Asian Medicine

1800-1910

Chatelaine, pull off, spectacle case, shagreen covered, with jade toggle, Chinese, 1801-1900

Chatelaine, pull off, spectacle case, shagreen cov

Ophthalmology

1801-1900

Green mineral ear pendant, Maori, New Zealand

Ethnography and Folk Medicine