Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Shell pendant painted with an eye

1850-1920

Amulet, whelk shell with reversed spiral

1850-1920

Tortoise carapace amulet

1880-1930

Brooch to avert the evil eye

1900-1914

Ear trumpet made from shell

1850-1900

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

1881-1925

Cloth bag

1880-1920

Small piece of tortoiseshell

1701-1900

Pince-Nez Frame

1920-1925

Wooden bowl containing shells, bones and nut kernels, South Africa, 1890-1924

1890-1924

Amuletic model of human skull

Figure of seated female

1801-1910

Pierced cowrie shell with attached leather thong

1850-1920

Hand prayer wheel containing prayers

1801-1900

Decorated inro (receptacle)

Knife, steel and shell

3 lancets

1751-1850

4 lancets

1601-1800

Model of an Esquimaux, or Inuit kayak

1915-1925

Wooden bowl

1880-1889

Calabash rattle, Nigeria, 1851-1920

1851-1920

X-Ray Photograph of Two Shells

Small solid bronze amulet

200 BCE-200 CE

Amuletic bundle

1880-1920

2 shell amulets

1880-1920

Circular amulet

1880-1930

Silver finger ring

Labret, funnel shaped composition of shell

1831-1920

Medicine man's belt comprising snake vertebrae threaded onto string

1880-1920

Broken lip stub

1851-1930

Brass spoon

Wooden staff

Woven fibre medicine man's bag containing cloth

1871-1920

Lip plug in form of wooden disc decorated with beads and shell pendant

1801-1920

Medicine man's circlet of hide and wood decorated with beads and cowrie shell

1880-1920

Twisted horn amulet

1850-1920

3 pendant amulets

1801-1920

Lancet, steel, in shell sheath, 18th century

1701-1800

Knife, steel and shell, 18th century

1701-1800

Knife, steel and shell, 18th century

1701-1800

Amuletic pendant in form of hand in fig gesture

1851-1935

Necklace, amuletic, cloth covered packet of medicine with 2 cowrie shells sewn on

Amulet carved form shell, in form of curved horn and skull

1850-1920

Lancet, steel, in shell case, 18th century

1701-1800

Lancet, steel, in shell sheath, 1600-1800

1600-1800

Scalpel, steel, folding

1801-1900

2 medicine containers made from boars's tusks

Cutthroat razor

1801-1900

Scoop, shell, Middle Eastern

Wooden feeding funnel

1871-1931