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Thorn carving depicting two boys feeding each other. Onitsha, Nigeria. Inscription on back ‘A. ORISAOIPE LACUS’

Thorn carving depicting a boy reading. Onitsha, Nigeria. Inscription on back ‘A. ORISAOIPE LACUS’

String of blue glass beads, 100 in number.

Mat made from black and white woven fibre and edged with coloured wool.

Wooden model on a flat base showing a gold riddle used in Australia. Also called Gold Mining Cradle. It has a seive at the top, which can be lifted off to view canvas belts underneath.

Framed, unglazed sepia photograph showing a gold mining cradle in use in Australia. It was used in the Australian Gold Fields for the washing of alluvial gold.

Boomerang

Boomerang

Boomerang with poker work decoration of Kangaroo, etc.

Original entry: Eygptian "chatti", clay water container. The hotter the sun the colder the water inside.