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View full screenSkirt (liku) worn by young women, made of strips of fibre of a Sterculiaceous plant: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 19th century
A.1883.73.6
Fiji, Polynesia
Late 19th century
Fijian
Pacific Peoples
Melanesian
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Horn closed at wider end with wooden plug, from the body of a man found at Gunnister in Northmavine, Shetland, late 17th century or later
Fragment of a horn of bronze, from Innermessan, Inch, Wigtownshire, 950 - 750 BC
Rim mount of silver, for an Anglo-Saxon blast horn, from Burghead, 850 - 890 AD
One of a collection of specimens illustrating the manufacture of Wedgwood pottery from Etruria, Staffordshire - presser's tool used in flat ware pressing - a horn used in finishing pressed ware: English, 1850s.
Container made from the horn of a cow with ivory inlay, the large end is closed with a ivory disk and the tip has an ivory fitting carved in the shape of a bird's head with flint beak, topped with a spoon : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC
Horagai, a triton shell with a perforated spire and a metal mouthpiece, with silken shoulder cord and tassels attached, used by Buddhist mountain ascetics (yamabushi): Japan
Horn of red stained ivory bound with cordage at the wider end, and mouthpiece carved near smaller knobbed end: part of the regalia of Kwamin Intsiaku, Chief of Sarman: Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante people, pre 1903
Twisted horn or choro, rudely dressed on the outside, with a hole bored near the tip for sounding: Eastern Africa, Kenya, Kikuyu
Antelope horn, used as part of a tobacco pipe: Eastern Africa, Mozambique, Zambezi Delta, collected by Dr John Kirk, economic botanist on David Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition, 1858 - 1864
Horn or trumpet of elephant ivory carved with groups of figures arranged in six tiers around the horn with mouth piece on the side of narrow end: Africa, Central Africa, Republic of the Congo, Loango