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Chanter Chanter

Highland pipe chanter with ivory sole, painted black, split and bound with six thread bindings

Chanter Chanter

Highland bagpipe chanter of wood, sole missing, split and bound with thread, with one extra hole drilled in the chanter neck above and to the right of High A, made by Donald MacDonald of Edinburgh, c. 1810

Chanter Chanter

Highland pipe chanter with ivory sole, badly split and bound with eight threaded bindings, early 19th century

Strap Strap

Strap of plaited brown thread decorated with inserted rows of white beads and with tags of quillwork and dyed horsehair, silver cones covering the junction: North America, Plains

Garter Garter

Garter, one of a pair, consisting of a narrow band of textile, woven in a red and green wool warp on a thread weft, tasselled at each end: North America, USA, Arizona, Hopi, mid 20th century

Garter Garter

Garter, one of a pair, consisting of a narrow band of textile, woven in a red and green wool warp on a thread weft, tasselled at each end: North America, USA, Arizona, Hopi, mid 20th century

Comb Comb

Comb made of twenty seven points of white wood, bound with red thread: Melanesian, New Caledonia

Kalhoo / mill, oil / blinkers / model Kalhoo / mill, oil / blinkers / model

Blinkers, part of a model of an oil-mill or kalhoo, to a scale of 1/2 of an inch to 1 foot: Asia, South Asia, India, Bihar, Patna, 1815 - 1821

Gold and silver thread manufacturing machine / model Gold and silver thread manufacturing machine / model

Model of a machine for making gold and silver thread, to a scale of 1/2 of an inch to 1 foot: Asia, South Asia, India, Bihar, Patna or Tirhut, 1815 - 1821

Hemp container Hemp container

Small tin for Bulwark Cut Plug tobacco, by W.D. and H.O. Wills, used to house hemp and thread for bagpipes, associated with Pipe Major Ronald Mackenzie, c. 1900

Pattern stick Pattern stick

Pattern stick of hard wood, cut on both edges, possibly to the pattern of Highland bagpipe drones, one of a collection of bagpipe making tools from the workshop of Robert Thomson, bagpipe maker, Leicester, 1930s - 1950s

Jacket Jacket

Jacket with zip fastening, extended shoulder decoration and three tails attached to waistband, made of yellow, black, green and red strips of fabric, part of 'Fine Lady' fancy dress masquerade costume, originally purchased by Donatus Archibald Acquandoh (Hippies) from a tailor in Winneba: Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Winneba, 2000

Jacket Jacket

Tailored jacket with zip fastening, in red, green, yellow, black and white fabric with shoulder decoration and four tail features, extending from the waistband, part of an Ugly Man fancy dress masquerade costume purchased from a tailor in Winneba by D.A. Acquandoh (Hippies): Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Elmina, collected in 2000 - 2001

Trousers Trousers

Drawstring trousers to be worn with an Ugly Man fancy dress masquerade costume, made of printed fabric designed to commemorate 40 years of Ghana's independence, purchased from a tailor in Winneba by D.A. Acquandoh (Hippies): Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Elmina, collected in 2000 - 2001

Trousers Trousers

Drawstring trousers made to be worn as part of 'Fine Lady' fancy dress masquerade costume, made of yellow and black man-made fabric with yellow and white frills, originally purchased by Donatus Archibald Acquandoh (alias Hippies) from a tailor in Winneba: Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Winneba, 2000

Ornament Ornament

Ornament in form of a galleon made of shells with rigging of red threads and with four green-dyed top shells, set inside an open bi-valve shell which is glued to a wooden base

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