Head rest for photographic studio use, in cast iron on a flat tripod base, by Harvey Reynolds & Co., Leeds, c. 1860

Head rest of dark brown wood, with curved rounded bar terminating in obtuse-angled projections, and two solid triangular feet lashed on with sinnet: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Head rest of wood, whale ivory, sinnet and glass: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 19th - early 20th century

Head rest of dark brown wood with crescentic bar, carved from the trunk of a tree at a point where four branches radiated: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Head rest, consisting of curved bar of bamboo with rows of geometric ornamentation, on two solid wooden feet attached by means of sinnet and black gum: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Wooden head rest carved from the solid, in the form of a straight bar above a serrated oval on a rectangular base: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Head rest consisting of a length of bamboo supported by two solid, triangular feet of brown wood: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Wooden head rest: Eastern Africa, Mozambique, Zambezi Delta, collected by Dr John Kirk, economic botanist on David Livingstone’s Zambezi Expedition, 1858 - 1864

Wooden head rest consisting of a curved bar and carved V-shaped stem terminating in a representation of a human foot: South Africa, Ulundi, Zululand, Nguni