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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Section of vacuum vessel from the particle accelerator Nimrod, 1964

Nuclear Physics

1964

Model alligator

Pharmacy-ware

1801-1900

Circumcision knife, Central Australia, 1850-1920

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

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

Tobacco pipe

Smoking

1880-1925

Wooden stick with pointed handle and saw blade mad

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

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

Handle only of circumcision knife, made of cane, w

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Rangefinder eyepiece prism (see note).

Optics

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Circumcision knife, with quartzite(?) blade and ha

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Circumcision knife, blade only, made of stone, of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Knife with pointed stone blade and solidified gum

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Circumcision knife consisting of quartzite blade a

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Buddhist reliquary with stamped tablet and bound writings

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

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

Ceremonial saw consisting of wooden stick with row

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1925

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1910

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 ma

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1910

Circumcision knife consisting of quartzite blade a

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

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

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
Radar guidance head for British Skyflash missile.

Radar guidance head for British Skyflash missile.

Farnborough
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
Buddhist gilt image of god, Tibetan, 1701-1900

Buddhist image of god

Asian Medicine

1701-1900
Bright ear ornament worn in enlarged lobe, Indian, 1851-1900

Ear ornament worn in enlarged lobe

Asian Medicine

1851-1900
Wooden anthropomorphic statue, resinous concretion in headdress, mirror-fronted abdominal protusion of resin containing "medicine" mirrors for divinatory purposes, Mayombe or neighbouring tribes, West Congo, 1880-1920

Wooden anthropomorphic statue, resinous concretion

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920
Granules of gum olibanum resin "siftings" from Somalia, now in polythene bag, 1891-1970

Granules of gum olibanum resin "siftings" from Som

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1891-1970
Small yellow lump of "peasize" gum olibanum resin from Somalia, now in polythene bag, 1891-1970

Small yellow lump of "peasize" gum olibanum resin

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1891-1970
Ear pendant, funnel shaped composition of shell, resin and wood, suspended from cord, British Guiana, 1831-1920

Ear pendant, funnel shaped composition of shell, r

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1831-1920
Medicine man's amulet made of antelope horn with globular resinous, concretion of medicine (?), Congolese, 1890-1920

Medicine man's amulet made of antelope horn with g

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920
Resins used in early plastic lens experiments, translucent used on Arthur Kingston plastic lenses. 1933-1935.

resins used in early plastic lens experiments

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1933-1935
Necklace, treble stranded, threaded with scented resin, coral, glass and 4 silver hands of Fatimah

Necklace, treble stranded, threaded with scented r

Ethnography and Folk Medicine