SIM card issued by Vodacom, 1994

Telecommunications

1994

Amuletic bracelet made from twisted wire and beads

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Tellurometer for EDM (Electronic Distance Measurement), 1957-1962

Surveying

1957-1962

Amuletic necklace of lions and leopard's teeth(26)

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Necklace, belonging to witch doctor

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1932

Carved wooden penis sheath

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

eRanger ambulance

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

2000-2009

Serpentine and pewter tobacco pipe

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Penis sheath made from strips of reed

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Flint spear head mounted in handle

Hand and Machine Tools

Divination bones, South Africa, 1880-1920

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Air samples collected by James Lovelock from New Zealand and South Africa

Experimental Chemistry

1980-1989

Photograph of the emission nebula, Eta Carina (1 hour exposure)

Astronomy

1909

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

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1924

Carved wooden penis sheath

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Bone snuff spoon, Zulu, South African

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Snuff box

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1918

Medicine man's necklace

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1935

Carved wooden penis sheath

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

3D printed sculpture

Antenna

2011

Snuff spoon

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Two dried seed shell snuff boxes

Pharmacy-ware

1880-1915

Bone snuff spoon with two bowl

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1915

Stylised doll consisting of conical shape covered with coiled polychrome strings of beads with brass disc for face

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Snuff box at each end of wooden link chain

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Eleven snakeskin amulet cases stitched to fibre cord necklace decorated with red cord beads

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Necklace, amuletic, comprising 14 teeth

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1920

Grass basketry penis sheath covered in reed strands

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Steel ear piercing instrument

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1910

Carved wooden penis sheath

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1920

Carved wooden ceremonial staff

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Bone nose pin

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Grass basketry penis sheath with reed covering onion-shaped

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1915

On Table Mountain

Photographs

ca. 1950s

Dried grass basketry penis sheath

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1925

Hottentot green serpentine tobacco pipe

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Pet bag made from fibre containing 11 knuckle bones and 2 shells used by medicine man

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Snuff spoon and hairpin combined

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1915

Penis sheath made from thick grasses with cord pommel at end

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Amuletic necklace

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Snuff spoon

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Snuff box

Smoking

1890-1929

Snuff spoon

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Carved wooden statue of a female in standing position with pronounced steatopygia

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Grass basketry penis sheath covered in reed strands

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1930

Wooden tobacco pipe

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Grass basketry penis sheath covered with brown and white reeds

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1925

Carved wooden staff

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Snuff box

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Carved wooden penis sheath

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920