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Model alligator

Pharmacy-ware

1801-1900

Circumcision knife, Central Australia, 1850-1920

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Short knife, with flint blade and solid gum handle

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1800-1920

Circumcision knife, consisting of flint blade and

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1800-1920

Section of vacuum vessel from the particle accelerator Nimrod, 1964

Nuclear Physics

1964

Black comb, paddle-shaped, with 11 prongs, made of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Cane comb with 13 prongs, paddle-shaped, secured a

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1910

Wooden stick with pointed handle and saw blade mad

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Medicine man's amulet made of antelope horn with g

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Tobacco pipe

Smoking

1880-1925

Buddhist image of god

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Circumcision knife, with quartzite(?) blade and ha

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Knife with pointed stone blade and solidified gum

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Handle only of circumcision knife, made of cane, w

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Rangefinder eyepiece prism (see note).

Optics

Circumcision knife, blade only, made of stone, of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Circumcision knife consisting of quartzite blade a

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Half of knife or probe, made of wood with gum eith

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Pointed wooden stick with saw teeth made of flints

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1910

Short knife made of kangaroo tooth, bound with gra

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1925

Black comb, paddle-shaped, with 12 prongs, made of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Pear-shaped resinous concretion of earth with claw

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1918

Amulet, possibly a turtle shell

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Amulet, tip of antelope horn

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Part of medicine man's equipment - a monkey's paw

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Buddhist reliquary with stamped tablet and bound writings

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Ceremonial saw consisting of wooden stick with row

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1925

Small knife consisting of green glass or obsidian

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1910

Circumcision knife with flint blade attached to wo

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Necklace of animal teeth and bones, secured with b

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1925

Wooden stick, with pointed handle, and saw-teeth m

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1910

Animal horn cupping horn(?) rim surrounded by thic

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Wooden stick, with pointed handle and saw teeth ma

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1910

Circumcision knife consisting of quartzite blade a

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Amuletic horn attached to broad cloth straps

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Black comb, paddle-shaped, with 22 prongs, made of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Antelope horn tip with globular resinous concretio

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1915

Knife with shell blade, Yomandil Tribe, Australia, 1870-1920

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Knife, consising of short green glass blade fixed

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Amuletic pendant in form of block gum-ball with si

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1935

Animal horn with sealed end, cupping horn, resinou

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Circumcision knife consisting of quartzite blade a

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Black comb, paddle-shaped, with 12 prongs, made of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Replica of Anglo-Saxon copper arm bandage with human arm bone, English, 500-1000

Replica of an Anglo-Saxon bandage, England

Surgery

500-1000 CE

Pair of pointing bones, attached by twisted band of hair, used by Kurdaitcha of Kaitish tribe, Central Australia, 1870-1920

Pair of pointing bones, Central Australia, c. 1870-1920.

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

A series of five Wind tunnel models of elongated merged fuselarge narrow delta configuration in Concorde wing developement programme.

A series of five Wind tunnel models of elongated m

Farnborough

1955-1965

Four large pieces and some fragments of columbus catechu(?) in form of black resinous lumps with surface layer of stem and seed husks, provenance unknown, 1830-1920

Four large pieces and some fragments of columbus c

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1830-1920

Carved wooden pointing stick, double-barbed, with hair string attached by gum, covered with red pigment, from Central Australia, 1881-1925

Carved wooden pointing stick, double-barbed, with

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1925

Six stranded necklace threaded with triangular scented resin beads and with a silver hand of Fatimah

Six stranded necklace threaded with triangular sce

Ethnography and Folk Medicine