Bagpipe bellows comprising two outer boards of beechwood with a stitched leather diaphragm, possibly from the small museum at Tarland, Aberdeenshire

Sheath for knife (makiri), wood with carved abstract designs, bound with cherry bark strips and with cord loop for suspending from belt: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th century

Peyote rattle, with wooden shaft decorated with beads, coloured thread, dyed horsehair and a cord tassel, supporting a hollow gourd containing seeds: North America, USA, Plains, 19th century

Powder-horn, made from cow's horn with brass fitting at the tip, oversized wooden stopper and cord attachment: Africa, Eastern Africa, Malawi, late 19th century

Eye-shade of plaited cord: Melanesia, Vanuatu, Tongoa, late 19th century

Spear, with wooden shaft and obsidian blade, bound with cord and parinarium putty and painted in red and white: Oceania, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, 19th century

Spear, with wooden shaft and obsidian blade, bound with cord and parinarium putty and painted in red and white: Oceania, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, 19th century

Spear, with wooden shaft and obsidian blade, bound with cord and parinarium putty and painted in red and white: Oceania, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, 19th century

Model of a machine for making rope, to a scale of 4 inches to 1 foot: Asia, South Asia, India, Bihar, Patna, 1815 - 1821

Model of a machine for twisting single threads of sirkee grass leaves into rope, to a scale of 3 inches to 1 foot: Asia, South Asia, India, Bihar, Patna or Tirhut, 1815 - 1821

Turquoise tufty neckpiece of dyed paper, cord, felt and wire: Scottish, Edinburgh, by Angela O'Kelly, 2001

Sword (talwar) of Indian origin, said to have belonged to Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu (Tipu Sultan), taken by Captain James Ferrier, Scotch Brigade, at the Siege of Seringapatam in 1799, during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, (1798 -1799), later said to have been sent to General Islay Ferrier who raised a battalion of the regiment in 1793

Carved wooden standing male figure with fibre attachements around neck and waist coated in black pigment: Africa, Central Africa, Southern Sudan or Democratic Republic of the Congo, Asande, early 20th century