British Empire & Commonwealth (2001/050/386)

Photo postcard showing 'Malaya Pavillion from the lake'. British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, London, 1924.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2001/070/061)

Souvenir booklet. 'Bristol, A City of 1000 Years'. 1951, Festival of Britain.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2002/001/042)

Franco British Empire exhibition. Official souvenir. Paper booklet. 1908.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2002/001/072)

British Empire Pageant of Empire programme (Part 1), 1924. Shows images of people recreating famous scenes from history. Includes Pageant of Canada, Prologue Westward Ho!, Pageant of Newfoundland and a list of music played.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2002/001/082)

Letter to R.W. Fair Esq, MBE, in South Africa. From South African Pavillion exhibition in London. Attached to mounted board. Letter on headed pavillion paper. Re. finances. From Kenneth Harvey. Dated August 20th 1924. British Empire exhibition 1924. With stamp and postmark for the exhibition.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2002/008/002)

Cotton jersey t-shirt in dark red. On the front is a yellow radiation symbol with a black hand print (black, red, and yellow are the colour of the Australian Aboriginal flag). Above the symbol ‘Stop Jabiluka Mine.’ Below the symbol – 'Not in Kakadu Not Anywhere'. On the back, a quote from Ivonne Margarula, Senior Traditional Owner of the Nirrar Gundjehmi, homelands surrounding the proposed Jabiluka mine site. ‘We live the environmental damage and negative social impact from mining development. We believe that Uranium mining has negative consequences for all Australians'.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2002/173/001)

Postcard of Empire exhibition, Scotland, 1938. South African, New Zealand and Canadian pavillions.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2003/169/001.2)

Type of zither made from section of bamboo with small slit along length and two bamboo 'strings'.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2003/169/001.1)

Plaited bamboo basket - square bodied, on four legs with rounded rim.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2003/169/006)

Single stringed instrument with coconut resonator, bamboo neck with tuning peg at top. Hide skin at bottom of the coconut. Also a tuning peg. Ektara.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2003/169/008)

Plaited forehead carrying band/strap made of woven vegetable fibre with multi-coloured wool and cotton wrapped round sections. Bangladesh?

British Empire & Commonwealth (2003/169/009)

Woven vegetable fibre oval tray with two handles. Bangladesh? Price label 'Bain textile, Rangamati'.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2003/169/016)

Wooden tapered stick piercing large circular seed pod with cord wound round top half which itself is attached to a piece of bamboo pointed at one end. Looks like a spindle whorl or toy spinning top.(see 2003/169/025). Bangladesh?

British Empire & Commonwealth (2003/169/017)

Length of black textile with red and yellow striped pattern and woven green, yellow, pink and red striped pattern on top. Bangadesh?

British Empire & Commonwealth (2003/169/018)

Length of dark blue textile with red and yellow striped pattern. Warp stripe.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2003/169/025)

Wooden tapered stick piercing large circular seed pod with cord wound round top half which itself is attached to a piece of bamboo pointed at one end. Looks like a spindle whorl or toy spinning top. (see 2003/169/016). Bangladesh?

British Empire & Commonwealth (2003/169/026)

Square lidded box made of vegetable fibre.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2004/001/089)

'Lipton Tea' brass tea caddy. Souvenir from British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, London, 1924. Lipton also on the base.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2004/001/287)

Toffee tin. 'Thorne's Extra Super Creme Toffee'. Pavillion scenes, British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, London, 1924.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2004/001/288)

Tea caddy. Hinged tin. Souvenir from British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, London, 1924. Scenes of different pavillions at the exhibition. Piece of brown paper inside.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2004/065/001)

Souvenir badge; 'Wembley 1925'. British Empire Exhibition. Lion standing on a blue enamelled bar.

British Empire & Commonwealth (1511.tet)

Ceremonial wooden stick with leaf shaped spear head at one end.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2001/231/016)

Man's neck tie. Very dark navy with white elephant in front of a palm tree with a crown above. Label 'Crimpele Made from Terylene. TM Lewin & Sons. Jermyn St, London, SW1. Made in England'. In plasic bag, Probably unworn. Palestine Police Force?

British Empire & Commonwealth (2001/231/005)

Riding crop, plaited leather with a makers stamp on the end ‘Steel Lined’. Palestine police

British Empire & Commonwealth (2001/231/008)

Swagger stick, black wooden stick with round ball head, Palestine Police

British Empire & Commonwealth (2001/231/007)

Stick covered in brown leather. Palestine Police?

British Empire & Commonwealth (2010/231/001)

Police tin helmet from Palestine with a rubberised canvas inner hat, khaki coloured with canvas chin strap.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2010/229/001)

British Police in Palestine baton, in turned wood, hand grip grooved for extra secure grip, hole for leather thong, long tapered baton with a rounded end.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2010/230/001)

WW2 Palestine 1941 Australian Commonwealth Military Force embroidered rectangular cushion cover. Front of cushion is made of mauve satin embroidered in chain stitch in artificial silks. In the centre is a domed building in front of which is a camel, a crown and a leaf pattern. Below this is embroidered 'Australian Commonwealth Military Force'. Above the building are palm trees to the sides and the words 'Palestine 1941 Mosque of Omar'. The cushion has an orange fringe. The back of the cushion is made of white calico.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2021/012/010)

Framed certificate with 'National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America – Norman Myers elected as Foreign Associate.' Norman Myers was a noted environmentalist.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2021/012/006)

Framed certificate with 'SENIOR FELLOW – The Cecil & Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society, The University of Texas at Dallas – Norman Myers.' Norman Myers was a noted environmentalist.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2021/012/007)

Framed certificate with 'American Association for the Advancement of Science. Norman Myers elected as fellow, 1990.' Norman Myers was a noted environmentalist.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2021/012/011)

Framed certificate Order of St Michael and St George presented to the environmentalist Norman Myers. Signed by Elizabeth II.

British Empire & Commonwealth (1484.TET)

Quiver and arrows. Quiver is hollow tube of wood, covered in leather with a hide base, cap is missing. Hide strap for carrying. 6 arrows, wooden shaft, nock at end. Feather flights bound with sinew? Iron arrowheads, set into the shaft and bound with sinew. Two leaf shaped, three barbed, one missing. Believed to have been dipped in poison.

British Empire & Commonwealth (1485.TET)

Quiver and arrows. Hide quiver, stitched into a tube with strap, handle and cap. 9 arrows, 4 missing their head. 3 with an iron-barbed arrow head. 2 with iron elongated arrowhead set into a wooden shaft, bound with hide? Knock at end, bound with sinew. Signs of mould.

British Empire & Commonwealth (1486.TET)

Butt of a spear, probably Maasai. Iron with a socket to fit the wooden hand hold, very long tapering point. Possibly goes with 1487.tet

British Empire & Commonwealth (1487.TET)

Spearhead. Head of a Maasai? spear, iron with a long shaft, a leaf shaped blade with central rib and a socket for the missing wooden hand grip. Very rusty. Said to be poisoned.

British Empire & Commonwealth (1488.TET)

4 arrows. Bamboo shaft. Offset barbed head. Possibly East Africa. Tied with vegetable fibre.

British Empire & Commonwealth (1997/077/110)

Sarawak blow pipe, tapered pole with a narrow hole bored through the whole length – Baram River, Kayan People.

British Empire & Commonwealth (2000/040/006)

Fijian woven palm leaf cloth/mat. Made from rattan