Necklace of blue plastic beads imitating turquoise, 'floral' white metal beads and cylindrical and round silver beads strung on gut: North America, USA, Arizona, Grand Canyon Park, Navajo, 1992

Cowrie shell ornament strung with gut, edged with pale pink snail shells and with two pendant strands: Micronesia, Republic of Kiribati, Gilbert Islands, c. 1960s

Cowrie shell ornament strung with gut, and with a triangular pendant edged with small brown snail shells: Micronesia, Republic of Kiribati, Gilbert Islands, c. 1960s

Charango or lute, with eight gut strings, back of armadillo skin, and front and arm of figured wood and pearl shell: South America, Bolivia, Camargo, Cuchu-pucra, Quichua, late 19th century

Barbed harpoon head, of bone, with line of wrapped sinew attached: North America, Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Nuu-chah-nulth, late 18th century

Harp or ngombi, of pale cottonwood with hollow boat-shaped body, covered on top with skin fastened with wooden pins, with rising curved arm with eight tuning-pegs and gut strings, and carved human head on the headstock: Africa, Central Africa, Gabon, late 19th century

Necklace of periwinkle shells interspersed with groups of brown snail-shells, strung on gut: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, c. 1970

Kamaycha or short-necked lute with heavy wooden resonator with sound table of calf or goat skin, eleven strings of gut and wire, and inlays of ivory and mother of pearl: Indian, Rajasthan, 19th - 20th century

Cello made by Mathew Hardie & Son of Edinburgh, 1823

Semicircular birdcage with cane bars lashed with cane, removable bars at back with overhanging gut mesh on a wooden frame: Asia, South East Asia, Indonesia, probably Borneo, c. 1850 - 1950

Semicircular birdcage with cane bars lashed with cane, removable bars at back with overhanging gut mesh on a wooden frame: Asia, South East Asia, Indonesia, probably Borneo, c. 1850 - 1950

Necklace of alternating Pyrene varians shells and clear yellow glass spacers, with a rosette of shells arranged in a star pattern suspended from the centre: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 20th century

Necklace of alternating white and variegated Pyrene varians shells, with a central rosette composed of cowrie, Umbonium vestiarum and sugar limpet shells: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 20th century

Necklace of alternating sections of dove shells and gold ringer cowrie shells, with a central rosette of gold ringer cowries, Umbonium vestiarum and dove shells: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 20th century

Bendir or frame drum, goatskin with gut, wood and metal, used by Kaddom ben el Haj Kacem of L'Ensemble Ranim, Tunis, at a performance at the Palais Ennejma Ezzahr, Sidi Bou Saïd, Tunisia, on 19 October 2009: Tunisia, Tunis, Sufi, Arab, by Ali Frizit and modified by Kaddom ben el Haj Kacem, 2005