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Tobacco

1966

Photograph of rhinocerous Mohijina celebrating her first birthday

1958

Wooden divination plaque

1880-1910

Collection of amulets including two oyster bi-valves

1880-1920

Amulet of bone cylinder and female hearth of fire sticks attached on sling

1870-1920

Nose pin

1880-1920

Witch doctor's bracelet leather thong strung with pieces of vertebrae

1880-1920

Steel surgical knife with wooden handle and sheath bound with strips of animal gut

1880-1920

Wooden divination plaque

1880-1910

Nose pin

1880-1919

Four divination plaques on a string, Zimbabwe, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Wooden snuff flask

1880-1930

Snuff spoon

1880-1925

Photograph of baby rhinocerous Rupert playing with David and Diana Condy

1962

Wooden divination plaque

1880-1910

Wooden divination plaque

1880-1910

Wooden divination plaque

1880-1910

Wooden divination plaque

1880-1910

Wooden divination plaque

1880-1910

Thong necklace threaded with two horns

1880-1930

Snuff box

1890-1920

Snuff bottle

1880-1920

2 divinatory or fortune telling bones resembling ribs belonging to medicine man

1880-1920

Small copper strigil with looped end of handle

1880-1925

Snuff bottle possibly made from the lining of a cow's stomach

1890-1930

Small tubular ivory Amulet

1880-1930

Carved wooden snuff container

1890-1930

Steel surgical knife with finely carved handle and sheath

1890-1920

Bone snuff spoon handle only

1890-1915

Snuff spoon

1890-1918
Specimen jar containing 2 pieces of strophanthus wood from Rhodesia

Strophanthus wood in specimen jar

1891-1930
Chromogenic print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "School in the Open-Air on the Siwunula Native Reserve". Originally published in Picture Post, July 7, 1956. Story titled "The Birth of a New Nation", about Rhodesia. Image shows a mother and baby on a native reserve in what is now Zimbabwe. Caption in magazine reads: "School is compulsory for children between six and fourteen." Photographer's stamp on verso. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Open-Air School on the Siwunula Native Reserve

1956
Chromogenic print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled Preparing Groundnuts." Originally published in Picture Post, July 7, 1956. Story titled "The Birth of a New Nation", about Rhodesia. Image shows a mother and baby on a native reserve in what is now Zimbabwe. Caption in magazine reads: "The Reserve in which she lives is thirty miles long by twelve wide, and lies between Salisbury and Bulawayo. Each family has nine acres for crops and a smaller plot for vegetables. The Reserve grows maize, rice, buts and beans. But many work in the nearest town." Photographer's stamp on verso.

Preparing Groundnuts

1956
Poster, "Thanks...The Blood Bank...Your Bank for Life", Zimbabwe Red Cross Society Blood Donor Service

Poster "Thanks . . . . The Blood Bank . . . . Your Bank for Life"

Poster, "Our Mobile Blood Bank will here on...The Blood Bank...Your Bank for Life", designed by Mavigane Project, Zimbabwe Red Cross Society Blood Donor Service

Poster "Our Mobile Blood Bank will be here on . . . . The Blood Bank . . . . Your Bank for Life"

4 shaka wood divination plaques, carved with geometric patterns from Zimbabwe, by Mashona tribe

4 shaka wood divination plaques