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Medicine man's equipment consisting of pouch of echidna skin

1890-1910

Clear glass container stuck on to glass backing plate, contains flat back deeds from dadap tree, flower are used to treat hay fever, by Battack tribe of Sumatra

Clear glass container stuck on to glass backing plate

1830-1920

Glass diapositive in passe-partout frame [X14] of a drawing by Mr Wesley [plate 12] showing the solar corona as seen from Sumatra at the solar eclipse of May 18th, 1901.

Glass diapositive of a drawing showing the solar corona at the eclipse seen from Sumatra

1901

Flash spectra, photographed with an objective plane grating by S. A. Mitchell, Columbia University Observatory, New York City, Sumatra, eclipse expedition, 1901, May 18

Flash spectra

1901

Specimen jar containing small lumps of dragon's blood, red resin of daemonorops propinquus from Sumatra, supplied by Lambert and Strong(?) and bottled in England, 1899

Specimen jar containing small lumps of dragon's blood

1890-1899

Broken specimen jar containing rust-red cake resin, Dragon's Blood, Sumatran, bottled in England, 1880-1920

Specimen jar of dragon's blood

1880-1920

Stoppered clear gas specimen jar with broken rim, containing pieces of dragon's blood, from Sumatra, bottled by Charles Buchet and Cie, Paris, France, 1870-1920, jar English

Specimen Jar of Dragon's blood from Sumatra

1870-1920

Specimen jar containing dragon's blood resin, from Sumatra, bottled in England, 1894

Specimen jar containing dragon's blood resin

1890-1894

Specimen jar containing cylinders of dragon's blood resin, wrapped in reeds, Sumatra, bottled in England, 1880 to 1920

Specimen jar containing dragon's blood

1880-1920

Specimen jar containing lumps of Dragon's Blood resin, from Sumatra, bottled in England, 1880 to 1920

Specimen jar containing Dragon's Blood

1880-1920

Human skull with lower jaw attached by cane strips, false beard and hair have been added, and twisted cane loop for carrying, consulted in times of illness, ceremonial, from Nias Island, Sumatra, 1851-1900

Human skull with lower jaw attached by cane strips

1851-1900