Door mat
Bed trestle
Bed trestle
Bed board
Chisel (woodworking)
Cabinet
Mattress
Mace (club (weapons: bludgeon))
Bed board
Amphora
Strike-a-light
Chess box
Waistcoat
Adze (woodworking)
Tent rope & hook
Door ornament
Tablecloth
Watch
Bread board
Mortar (food processing & storage)
Brazier
Temple lamp
Temple lamp
Streak plate
Teapot holder
Threshing stick
Sacrificial knife (knife (ritual & belief: thanksgiving & votive offerings))
Digging stick
Thorn picker
Floor felt
Floor felt
Pan (food processing & storage)
Snowshoe
Tent wall panel
Adze (woodworking)
Branding iron
Branding iron
Drawplate
Awl (wire drawing tool)
Beer container (narcotics & intoxicants: drinking)
Knife sheath (sheath (general & multipurpose))
Canoe model
Floor felt
Arrow
Axe (general & multipurpose)
Axe (general & multipurpose)
Axe (general & multipurpose)
Headdress (head ornament)
Sling (general & multipurpose)
Textile (function unknown); textile
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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