Sales catalogue: Stevens

Date:: 15 September 1925

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/21/481

Credit: Sales catalogue: Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Py: je (ff .\ Fi . (V7. | 18 ae + a | “y ~~ ) @.273¢ \ Leather pouch) to contain edible clay, a Kaffir snuff-pot, | es made of blood and gut, a hari-kari (suicide) knife, and | Fide), seat a curious flj -flap 7 _ fs ra J & 674) Chinese al s pill case and drop phial, with inscription, Aa ee and a bronze pastille burner pent dg 9 ¢>/.275 | A massive ancient Irish silver ring, a metal ornament i v7, | ao worn on foréhead, called Madini, from Tanganyika, and | A¢ WN) ria). reed) a silver toe fing, ditto | ¢ oe he vie J 276 A most curiouggwooden spiked object of considerable age | ee aie and unknown use \ /,(\ ey Lee L277) A Sussex iron alarm gun, for poachers ; now long obsolete; af and rare ee >, >. 278} An extremely rare doctor's thermometer, etc., indicating\~ BA A f 4! a imi “ Human Heat,” “ Fever Heat,’ etc., by Brook of ie? © 4 V wich, one of the earliest of these instruments extant — = eee Sg 279 ’ Stole of Kaffir priest, made of the scarce and aomteas 97. £«é i Tomboti wood, of great length, anda ditto boy’s collamne’@/~ ~~ 280 Chilkat arm band of bear’s claws, -worn as a hunter's , ff “i charm, and 2 ditto small pouches, to contain charms /¢/' @ © 281 An old leather pouch, containing an ancient MS., taken ‘5 4 off a dead warrior, Nigeria os 282 Three small tinder pouches, of very fine pee pe worn on the belt by men of rank, Tibet “ 283 Two Turkish firmans, one with fine signature of ee rae S Sultan, a deed of 1607, and various interesting items, #&®y including a letter written in gold ink 284 A curious pipe club, a Bechuana dagger with very pointed “#5 blade, and a powder flask ' 285 A collection of nostril rings, worn by the Hindoo women s 4 /.. < settled in Zanzibar, and 2 ditto bead neck bands ee | 286 A rope of large wood beads, obtained from a mosque in » », / Upper Egypt é of /— A finely woven ancient Peruvian carrying strap for babies, as: aa ihe band passing round the mother’s head, obtained from “7/3. . a grave af 2 Qje 288 | A curious old gun, of very small size, silver dindere and. a snake- biaed kris #4 WA a ter Hare. et es “ Album of the Pacific iit ‘by sagt Pb sdor CON- taming many hundreds of drawings of ethnological of which only 150 copies were printed ; Part 1 was sold Jor £30$

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