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textile
World Cultures (Eb324)
Kente cloth. Hand woven rayon strips sewn together, 2 main patterns, with finishing patterns either side of the cloth. Green, with yellows, purple, red and black.
calendar
World Cultures (Eb157)
Printed card calendar showing Akan religious festivals and ceremonies for 2007.
necklace
World Cultures (Ea9686a)
Red seed (adenanthera?) necklace with nut suspended from a metal link
watercolour
World Cultures (Ea8363)
Sketch of a figure from the wall paintings in the Casa de Barrios, from outer chamber, Teopancaxco, Teotihuacan, Mexico. Shows a figure in elaborate tunic and headdress pouring a libation. Note on sketch - Outer chamber. See large copy. 11? [reference to her sketch map on the back showing the position of remaining fragments of wall painting and numbering them] On reverse, sketch map in ink with notes and a pencil sketch of the figure, with a caption 'Penafiel'
watercolour
World Cultures (Ea8220b)
Watercolour copy of the stucco facade of the temple on the pyramid at Acanceh. Full scale. Corner motifs: large bird at each corner, facing outwards. Breast feathers made with limestone flakes set in stucco, the rest of the bird in painted stucco. May be eagles, or mythical birds. This piece fits on to the right of Ea8220a and shows the elaborate wing of a bird. Painted in blue, green, red, brown and yellow. Underneath is a further area of red and to the left of the red is part of the claw which continues on from a. Transparent and opaque watercolour and graphite on thin, cream, machine-made wove paper
calendar
World Cultures (Eb982)
Calendar for 1980, Un año del Sur Andino, published by the Instituto de Pastoral Andina. Tear-off months, with black and white photos of Andean life.
bag
World Cultures (Ea10231.a)
Has a thick plaited seed handle in dark brown. The bag is five sided with a triangular flap, decorated with 12 pale red seeds round in shape on front of the bag only. The seeds are dark brown, long and flat. 'Victoria Falls' could mean object is from N or S Rhodesia. ie Zambia or Zimbabwe.
spear
World Cultures (Ea8090a)
Spear with wooden head, four barbed tip joined with hide? and gum? to bamboo shaft (see Ea8090b for rest of shaft)
spear
World Cultures (Ea8090b)
Plain wood or cane spear with resin at one end - no point. See Ea8090a for barbed head.
spear
World Cultures (Ea8096b)
Bamboo shaft with red painted lines down its length. The three wooden barbed points which were fixed on the end of the shaft are now numbered Ea8096a.
spear
World Cultures (Ea8096a)
Bamboo shaft with painted red lines down its length (2nd half numbered Ea8096b). Three points each one with one row of wooden barbs. Butt made to fit a spear thrower.
Religion or Ritual figurine
World Cultures (Ea7951), ntiri
fired clay head 'ntiri' for use in ceremonial activities associated with funerary activites including placing on graves of important chiefs.
Furnishing
World Cultures (E4837)
Carved wooden stool. Derscribed as 'House of Winds' stool. Geometric carving, hollow central pillar, pillars at corners, made from one piece of solid wood
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