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Striking Arabian Girl - Morocco. Note the primitive-form Hamsa (Fatimas hand) amulet, worn throughout the Middle East and North Africa
Northeastern Vietnam - Woman of the Lo Lo People (Yi People)Vietnam - Dong Van, a rural district of Ha Giang province in the Northeast region of Vietnam - Woman of the Lo Lo People (Yi People). Date: 1905
Arabian Dancers - Port Said, Egypt. Date: circa 1902
A Beauty of the Island of Rarotonga, Cook IslandsA Beauty of the island of Rarotonga, part of the Cook Islands. Date: circa 1920s
Norwegian Bride from Hardanger in Tradtional CostumeNorwegian Bride from Hardanger, Norway wearing traditional marital costume, including the famous crown headdress worn by the bride. Date: 1902
Sullen Russian girl seated in the undergrowthSullen Russian country girl (in need of a good joke) seated in the undergrowth. Date: circa 1902
Sudanese street curio seller - Port Said, Egypt. Just the man if you were short of a string of beads for a night out. Date: circa 1910s
A Buryat (or Buriyad) man - Siberia, RussiaA Buryat (or Buriyad) man - the largest indigenous group in Siberia, mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryat Republic, a federal subject of Russia
Pretty Young Senegalese girl with braided hair and necklacePretty Young Senegalese girl with braided hair and large necklace. Date: circa 1910s
The Broken Necklace - smart Parisian dinner guests aid in the retrieval of the fallen pieces of a rather flustered young ladys necklace. Date: circa 1910s
Soviet Armenia - Collective Woman - Armenian FarmerBeautiful photographic portrait from Soviet Armenia - Collective Woman - Armenian Farmer. Date: circa 1930s
Woman from Vietnam - TonkinWoman from Northern Vietnam - Tonkin region, close to the Chinese border - wearing a fantastic vertigious turban headdress and a metal circlet around her neck. Date: circa 1910s
Alexandra Feodorovna RomanovaAlix of Hesse and by Rhine later Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova (18721918) - Empress of Russia as spouse of Tsar Nicholas II, the last Emperor of the Russian Empire. Date: circa 1909
A Languid girl from Southern RussiaLanguor A pretty girl from one of the southern Turcic States of Russia with her hand placed luxuriantly behind her neck - giving the a; ppearance of a dreamy, lazy mood (hence the title of the piece)
Antonida - Glinka Opera - BobroffAntonida, a character from the patriotic-heroic tragic opera A LIfe for the Tsar by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka. Date: 1902
Opal necklace given to the museum in 1958
Baltic amber jewelleryMatching necklace and earring set made of Baltic amber. Borrowed from Wendy Turner Coates. Image from Amber the Natural Time Capsule Fig. 22
Amber pendantAn amber pendant with circular cracks known as sun spangles which are produced by heating the amber. Borrowed from Goldmajor Ltd. Image is from Amber the Natural Time Capsule
Rubellite (Tourmaline) decoratively carved pendant. Specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London
Edwardian necklaceA necklace containing fake amber beads. Included are celluloid, phenolic resin, casein and glass beads. Fig. 11 from Amber The Natural Time Capsule
Native necklace of fossil foraminifera (Alveolinae)Native necklace of fossil foraminifera from John Whittakers cabinet, fossils dating from the Eocene Limestone, Sindh, India
Porosphaera (sponge) necklaceNecklace of Porosphaera beads from the Bronze Age, Higham Marshes, near Rochester, Kent. From the neck of a crouched skeleton in a stone-lined grave
Lapis lazuliBeads of lapis lazuli, with rough lapis lazuli, from Afghanistan. Lapis lazuli (sodium calcium aluminum silicate sulphur sulphate) is a rich blue opaque, semi-precious stone
Nephrite jade pendantA nephrite jade pendant with inlaid mother-of-pearl eyes. Specimen orginates from New Zealand
Arachnids in an amber pendantTwo arachnids (Phalaphium sp.) harvestman and (Oxyopes sp.) lynx spider trapped and preserved in amber. The amber has been made into a pendant for a necklace
Bronze Age necklace made of PorosphaeraThe fossil sponge Porosphaera can be found within Britains Cretaceous chalk. This necklace of 79 Porosphaera specimens was found around the neck of a skeleton dating back 4
Ostrea sp. oyster with pearlsOysters are bivalve molluscs found on the sea bed. Pearls, are smooth, spherical objects which can form inside their shells. They are considered valuable and are farmed and used to make jewellery