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Jar
Clay vessel with spout and ring handle. Decorated.
ID: E228
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Wooden comb with 17 teeth. Label attached says it is a "comb for sorting straw".
ID: E229
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Boomerang.
ID: E230
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Fan
Square woven fan.
ID: E231

Collection of painted works on pith. Export ware, Guangzhou (formerly Canton), China, 19th century.

Painted silk showing 20 pictures. China.

ID: E232
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Collection of South Sea weapons brought home by John Renton of Stromness.
ID: E233

Dark stone adze blade with smooth top sides and underside. Shadow of rectangular sticky label on top? ~Occasional inclusions of reddish stone.

ID: E234

Part of an inscribed brick from the Palace of Sargon II, King of Assyria 722BC.

ID: E235
Coloured ink drawing 'Panda King of the Zoolus from an original sketch taken when travelling through the Zoolu country Dec 1850 by James B West Jnr.
ID: E236

Spear club from Atiu, Cook Islands. Slender shaped head. End is eroded and originally had a v-shaped finial. Oval sectioned shaft.

ID: E237.1