Spoonholders
Mus (firearm)
Strike-a-light pouchs
Toy spears
Mus (rifle)
Netmaking shuttles
Ancestor tablets
Vices (textileworking: needlework)
Travellling gwarri boards
Netsukes
Spell removers
Tea containers (food processing & storage)
Straps
Mouse traps (spring traps)
Saddle blankets (animal furniture)
Mouse traps (traps (hunting, fishing & trapping))
Tethers (domestication of animals)
Temple archs
Mouse traps (dead-fall traps)
Annointing spoons
Mouthpieces (firedrill)
Tappers (agriculture & forestry)
Mouthpieces (bowdrills (firemaking: friction))
Painting
Temple banners (ritual & belief: ritual apparatus)
Caps (headwears (armour: body armour))
Hones (textileworking: weaving)
Pump drills (pump)
Jackets (clothing: outerwear)
Percussion pocket pistols
Hats (dance & live theatre)
Canoes (plank built boats)
Flails (weapons: bludgeon)
Purses (dance accessory)
Garters (clothing: accessories)
Spring traps
Leadshot casting tools
Knife models
Powder containers (ritual & belief: ritual apparatus)
Hanumans
Paddles (loom component)
Pump drills (general & multipurpose)
Paddles (water transport: accessories)
Coats (body coverings (armour: body armour))
Padlocks (punishment & torture)
Taiahas
Saddle carpets (horse furniture)
Rosaries (ritual accessories (ritual & belief: ritual persons paraphernalia))
Powder containers (cosmetic container)
Saddle bags (horse furniture)
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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