Model of activities (water transport: equipment)
Moulds (metalworking: casting)
Whips (domestication of animals)
Mats (household miscellany)
Toy roundabouts
Ritual staffs
Rasps (medical science)
Nests
Mat money
Wheel accessories
Mordant strainers
Rank insignias
Decorations (land transport: animal powered)
Toothpaste containers
Bicycles
Decanters
Torchs
Ritual sceptres
Model of activities (toilet articles)
Muffs
Model of activities (textileworking: yarn preparation & felting)
Housekeeping & laundry
Matchboxes
Wheelbarrows
Knife boxes (knife containers (weapons: accessories))
Mules
Tiles (ritual & belief: representations)
Bidis
Measures (construction)
Toothpicks
Decoys
Sniper's shields
Paper weights
Knife grinders
Totem poles
Prints (ritual & belief: representations)
Ornament stands
Mullers (narcotics & intoxicants: drinking)
Mead containers
Tinder horns
Wedging tools
Mourning adornments
Household miscellany
Daggers (general & multipurpose)
Medicine applicators
Incenses
Mourning accessories
Bows (textileworking: yarn preparation & felting)
Bodkins (textileworking: needlework)
Buckets (agriculture & forestry)
Collection Information
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
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