Dice Box
This is a bamboo dice box from the Malay Peninsula. It is made from a piece of bamboo with one end blocked. It is decorated with incised lines and dots.
Doll
This is a doll of a Maori girl from New Zealand. It is made of porcelain, and has a moveable head, arms and legs. She is wearing a grass skirt and is carrying a child on her back. The doll is one of a ...
Evening Flower
Tania Kovats (born 1966) Evening Flower, 1995 Sculpture from Plant bulbs, with seeds in resin Tania Kovats' garden series explores the metaphors of illness, specifically in relation to AIDS and Cancer ...
Fan
This is a Senegalese fan from West Africa. It is made of woven straw, twisted around a red, orange and yellow painted stick. The fan is decorated with holes in a triangle pattern.
Fan
This is a Senegalese fan from West Africa. It is made of woven straw attached to a short handle.
Fan
This fan is from Tunis, North Africa. The fan is made from a palm leaf that has been drawn down to one side. The long stem of the palm leaf forms the handle of the fan.
Fly Switch
This is the handle of a whip or switch, from Cairo. The bamboo handle should have a rope attached to one end, but this is now missing.
Fly Whisk
This switch is from South Africa. It has a decorative handle with bands of blue and white glass beads. Strands of palm leaves are attached to one end and a loop of multi-coloured glass beads is attached ...
Jungle Rope
This is a small piece of Jungle rope from Ceylon. It is made from twisted and bound grasses.
Leamington College for Girls Straw Hat
This straw hat belonged to Miss E. Mercer when she was a student at Leamington College for Girls. The college was established in 1902 at Avenue Road, Leamington Spa. It was later housed at premises on ...
Mangrove Stick
Mangrove stick, which was possibly used as a walking stick. It is made from a bulbous knob and long root. The stick is hollow to enable air to pass through to the root when it was growing.
Mat
A native plant fibre mat, which was coloured with plant dyes, from Pago Pago, Samoa. The mat is a rectangular piece of bark cloth with a brown painted pattern.
Mat
A rectangular mat of woven grass, probably from Pago Pago, Samoa. It has a linear design in red and its natural colour. The mat is fringed at its shorter ends.
Mat
This is a mat or tray from the Haussa people of West Africa. It is made of spiralling bands of twisted coloured straw in yellow, black, green and purple. This is one of eight similar Haussa mats of various ...
Mat
This is a mat or tray from the Haussa people of West Africa. It is made of spiralling bands of twisted coloured straw in yellow, black, green and purple. This is one of eight similar Haussa mats of various ...
Mat
This is a mat or tray from the Haussa people of West Africa. It is made of spiralling bands of twisted coloured straw in black and gold. This is one of eight similar Haussa mats of various sizes in the ...
Mat
This is a mat or tray from the Haussa people of West Africa. It is made of spiralling bands of twisted coloured straw in red, black and white. This is one of eight similar Haussa mats of various sizes ...
Mat
This is a mat or tray from the Haussa people of West Africa. It is made of spiralling bands of twisted coloured straw in red, black and white. This is one of eight similar Haussa mats of various sizes ...