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Maendeleo stove for rural Kenya, 1988

1988

Pair of iron tweezers

1890-1920

Amuletic horn

1880-1920

Gourd container used for divination, Kenya, 1871-1900

1871-1900

Gourd container with cork stopper

1890-1925

Bone snuff bottle

1890-1915

Headdress, cone shaped straw hat decorated with red feathers

1870-1930

Gourd container with paper stopper

1890-1925

Gourd container for holding medicine

1890-1925

Dried sheep's foot

1880-1926

Gourd container full of black powder

1890-1925

wooden snuff flask carved in slender drop-shape

1880-1920

Three surgical knives, from the Masia peoples of East Africa, c. 1880-1920.

1880-1920

Wooden medicine bottle with woven string bag, Kenya, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Ornament of two brass coils suspended from leather thong

1900-1920

Wooden lip plug

1880-1910

Decorative ear distender of wood with suspended metal chain

1880-1910

Pendant of boar's tusk suspended from two iron chains

1880-1920

Tobacco pipe with bowl and stem socket only

1880-1925

Small drop-shaped wooden snuff container

1880-1910

Rigged model of a Lamu passenger boat "Chuiru"

1925-1931

Photograph of rhinocerous and his baby elephant friend

1965

Pair of earrings, of looped brass wire, Kikuyu tribe, Kenya, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Amulet of twisted hide

1880-1920

Bamboo snuff bottle suspended from chain

1901-1930

Row of artificial teeth of wood and probably horn

1880-1920

Masai headdress

1870-1920

Ornamental horse collar

1900-1924

Gourd container with fibre stopper

1860-1900

Gourd container

1890-1925

Gourd container with grass stopper

1890-1925

Gourd container

1890-1925

Wooden stick cut from the branch of a tree

1890-1925

Gourd container with cork stopper

1890-1925

Carved wooden figure of a female

1901-1930

Wooden disc with concave upper and lower surfaces

1880-1910

Wooden disc

1880-1910

Leglet, made of four rings of iron wire and decorated with fringe of iron and copper wire

1880-1910

Three surgical knives, from the Masia peoples of East Africa, c. 1880-1920.

1880-1920

Papers and photographs concerning East African Railways and Harbours and the London Midland and Scottish Railway, 1937-1962.

Papers and photographs concerning East African Railways and Harbours and the London Midland and Scottish Railway

1937-1962

Collection of ten specimens of radioactive minerals: Allanite from South Africa, Carnotite from USA, Davidite from Mozambique, Granite from Cornwall, Kolm from Sweden, Monazite sand from India, Pitchblende (with alteration products) from Portugal, Samarskite from Kenya, Uraninite from the Congo, Uraninite (with alteration products) from Tanzania.

Collection of ten specimens of radioactive minerals: Allanite from South Africa

large display model of a "Mtepe" from Lamu, East Africa

Lamu mtepe, 1901-1930

1901-1930

Surgical knife, long steel blade set in rough wooden handle, Masai, East Africa, 1880-1920

Three surgical knives, from the Masia peoples of East Africa, c. 1880-1920.

1880-1920

Coffee husk, ground coffee husk, and paper bag from venture to produce charcoal from coffee husks, Kenya, 1979-81.

Coffee husk

1979-1981

Rigged model, scale 1:12, of a Dhow, the 'Faida' and its tender, by Maurice Castle-Smith, Lamu, Coast, Kenya, 1922-1932 and human figure by Barbara Mary Campbell, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, 1958. The 'Faida' was built at Lamu for the East African coast trade.

Rigged model of Dhow, the 'Faida' and its tender

1922-1932; 1958

Album of drawings of East African Railways 200 hp 0-6-0 diesel shunting locomotives. Set of drawings held by the Crown Agents for the Colonies. Tanganyika section, Z.68371-29, 24 November 1948.

East African Railways 0-6-0 diesel shunting locomotive drawings

1948-11-24

International News Photos photograph showing actors Clark Gable and Ava Gardner filming "Mogambo" (John Ford, 1953) on location in Kenya.

Clark Gable and Ava Gardner in 'Mogambo'

15 December 1952