Artefacts Collection

Great Zimbabwe / Artefacts
A plan of the site of the incredible ancient buildings at Great Zimbabwe, and a few of the many objects found at the site. Everything is of ancient African origin

Hopi Potter 1908
Nampeyo, a renowned pot-maker of the Hopi village of Tewa, northeastern Arizona : her pots are hand-made in every sense - no wheel or elaborate tools are used

Bruce Bairnsfather merchandise
Selection of items featuring illustrations by the famous World War One cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather including a jigsaw with Bairnsfathers curmudgeonly soldier character Ole Bill grumbling

Racial / Sioux Weapons
Sioux weapons, including knives, axes and tomahawks

Ojibway Picture Writing
Picture-writing of the Ojibway people of North America

Aztec Statuettes - Idols - In the National Museum of Mexico, Mexico City. Date: 1910s

Madame Tussaud's fire debris
A fire at Madame Tussauds wax figures museum caused it to be burnt to the ground in 1925. The fire took one and a half hours to get put out. Everything melted within

Discovery of the Tomb of Senoferu in Egypt, showing the location of the tomb and artefacts found within. The expedition was driven by Harvard and Boston university

Artefacts from the excavation from Tel-El-Obeid excavation in Ur of the Chaldean, which were on show in the British Museum

Notes in the Chinese Court - various artefacts and scenes from Chinese life on exhibition. 1884

Relics associated with Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury - ivory grace cup (centre), two mitres (left: Sens Abbey, Normandy; right: at one time the property of Cardinal Manning)

Dr Schliemanns Trojan antiquities on view, London 1877
The antiquities found at Hissarlik (Hisarlik, modern Turkey), on the plains of Troy, by Heinrich Schliemann during his remarkable excavations

Method of sealing an ancient letter - Paston correspondence
Method of sealing an ancient letter, an item from the correspondence of the Paston family in the time of Henry VI and Richard III (15th century). Date: 15th century

Ancient items from the Treasury of Great Britain
Ancient items from the Treasury of the Exchequer of Great Britain, following an inventory conducted by Sir Francis Palgrave, archivist and historian - a medieval leather pouch. Date: 1840s

Etruscan vase, British Museum, London
Etruscan vase on display at the British Museum, London. Date: BCE

SPG Missionary Exhibition, Brighton Dome, Sussex
SPG (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) Missionary Exhibition, Brighton Dome, Sussex -- two women at the Melanesia table, with a native hut, artefacts, books and portraits of clergymen

Saxon stone cross, St Michaels Church, Cropthorne, Worcs
Anglo-Saxon stone cross dating back to 825-850, in the churchyard of St Michaels Church, a Grade II listed building in Cropthorne, Worcestershire. Date: circa 1900s

Found Bronzes - Archaeology
Bronzes - Archaeology - found in Galloway (1 and 2), Fairholm, Lockerbie (3), and Barnhill, Dumfries (4). 1863

PIMA BASKET MAKER
A Pima woman of Arizona makes her baskets from the fibre of the yucca plant, weaving them from the centre outwards Date: 1908

RACIAL / PEACE PIPES C1730
A club, and two PEACE PIPES (or Calumets) used by Native Americans : the lower one is from Virginia Date: circa 1730

United Services Museum
In its day the Royal United Services Museum was regarded as the biggest and most important in the country, apart from the British Museum

The Churn Or Harvest Home, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of the photographer and his family all sitting at a table with wine and bread. There are interesting artefacts on the walls of the room

African dancer at ngoma, Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa
African dancer decorated with WW1 artefacts at a ngoma (traditional music and dance festival) in Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa. 1924

Racial / Canoe / Snowshoes
Chippeway canoe (top), Chippeway snowshoes (R) and Sioux snowshoes (L) Date: circa 1830

Egyptian artefacts
Egyptian figurines Date: Ancient Egypt

The Japanese Court at the International Exhibition Date: 1862

WW1 badge - knitting garments for the Royal Navy
A badge from the First World War period recognising those who knitted comforts for men of the Royal Navy. Date: c.1915

Sir John Soanes Museum, 1864
Sir John Soanes Museum at Lincoln Inn Fields, 1864. Victorian visitors admire the Monks Parlour. 1864

Kitwanga Totem Pole
A totem pole at Kitwanga, British Columbia, Canada. Date: early 1930s

Canadian Totem Pole
A Candian totem pole. Date: 1930s

Kitwanga Totem Poles
Totem poles at Kitwanga, British Columbia, Canada. Date: early 1930s

Lubaantun archaeology - mysterious Maya relics, 1924
Mysterious relics from the ruined Maya city of Lubaatun on the Columbia branch of the Rio Grande, British Honduras(today Belize)

Admiralty Islands - decorated gourds
Decorated gourds from the Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. Pen & Ink with watercolour wash drawings by Raymond Sheppard

South American ceramics
Items of material culture from South America. Distinctive ceramic bowls and drinking vessels, sporting fierce mask faces and anthropomorphic forms. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Early aviation artefacts
A selection of early aviation artefacts associated with Louis Bleriot and Alcock & Brown. There are two pieces of wood from the plane in which Bleriot flew the English Channel in 1909

Artefacts collected by H. M. Stanleys Anglo-American Expedit
Engraving showing a number of artefacts collected by Sir Henry Morton Stanleys Anglo-American expedition of 1874-1877. The native African items depicted include knives, pipes, shields, spears

Italy Rome Antiquities
Paintings and artefacts of ancient Rome

Roman Grape Press / Mdina
Two Roman grape presses (one complete with grinding stones) at the Mdina Museum

Owen Jones Egyptian 5
Various artefacts of importance in Ancient Egypt: fans made from feathers, head- dresses, boats made of papyrus, and other items featuring the lotus flower

Weapons & Artefacts
Assorted weapons and other artefacts from India

USA / Seattle / Totem Pole
Totem pole of the Raven Tribe of the Tlingit Indians (Alaska), purchased and re-erected in Seattle, Washington State

Racial / Arrow Heads 1853
Native arrow heads made from flint

Lecture / British Museum
A lecture in the Assyrian Gallery of the British Museum. The speaker points towards one of the massive carved Lion supports removed by Layard from excavations at Nineveh

Sioux Pipes
A variety of Sioux pipes

Brit Mus Egyptian Room
Thanks to military and political activities in Egypt, the Egyptian Gallery is well stocked with statues and other artefacts acquired in the cause of culture

Canoes and Cradles
Canoes and cradles

Nat American Pipes
Calumets (= peace-pipes) and pipes of Native American peoples of Arizona, New Mexico and thereabouts

Nat Aerican Ceramics
Ceramic objects of the Native American (probably Comanche) peoples in the esert states of western America

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