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Union bagpipe Union bagpipe

Set of Union bagpipes of blackwood, ebony and other hardwoods mounted with silver and ivory, presented by Lewis F. Innes of Ballogie to Robert Millar, with music book, made by Robert Reid, North Shields, 1830

Snuffbox Snuffbox

Circular snuffbox of pinchbeck with an inner lid enamelled with a portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stewart, the lid and base of hardwood decorated with grooves and wrigglework

Compositor's equipment / wedge Compositor's equipment / wedge

Part of a compositor's equipment, consisting of eleven hardwood wedges for locking type in the chase

Snuff tray Snuff tray

Snuff tray, of carved hardwood with shell inlay, the handle representing a jaguar crouching on the back of a human figure, probably a shaman possibly with female attributes: South America, Brazil, lower Rio Tapajos and lower Rio Trombetas area, 19th century or possibly earlier, Mawé

Comb Comb

Comb made with hardwood teeth fastened together with plaited cord and tied to a handle with brown thread: South America, Peru, found in a grave at Chancay

Figure / woman Figure / woman

Carved wooden female figure in hard wood, seated upon two-legged stool: West Africa, Ivory Coast, Senufo, early to mid 20th century

Bieri Bieri

Bieri (guardian figure) of carved hardwood with black oily patina, male bust with plain straight torso and arms akimbo on cylindrical base, fitting as stopper in cylindrical reliquary box of blackened bark, used to contain ancestral bones: Central Africa, Gabon, Middle Ogowe River, Fang people, late 19th to early 20th century

Box Box

Box of hardwood, rectangular with detachable lid carved in deep relief with mud-fish, entwined snakes and guilloches: West Africa, Nigeria, Edo State, Benin, 19th century

Club Club

Club of dark hardwood, carved and with globose head with a domical top: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Club Club

Club of dark brown heavy hardwood, with a straight, cylindrical shaft and broad, spatulate head: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Club Club

Club of polished heavy brown hardwood, with slightly curved, cylindrical shaft and straight, lotus head: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Club Club

Club of polished brown hardwood, with cylindrical shaft and musket-butt head with large dorsal projection: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Club Club

Club of red brown hardwood, with a cylindrical shaft and a musket-butt head with a dorsal projection: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Club Club

Club of polished brown hardwood, with cylindrical shaft expanding to a musket-butt head with a dorsal projection: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Club Club

Club of polished brown hardwood, with cylindrical shaft and a musket-butt head with a dorsal projection: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Club Club

Club of polished heavy red-brown hardwood, with stout cylindrical shaft and top bent round in right-angle to expand to a pineapple butt with pointed conical end: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

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