List of Objects
Telling a history of our world through objects
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Location / Central And South America
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Darwin's Beagle Specimen Notebooks
Charles Darwin's Beagle Dry Specimen Catalogues
Contributed by Museum
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19th century Mexican Serape
Made in Mexico, a serape or (zerape) is a soft rectangular blanket with an opening in the middle for one's head. It is a ...
Contributed by Individual
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Mexican Horse Saddle
Horse Saddle originally belonging to Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Politician, Cowboy, Writer and adventurer. It ...
Contributed by Museum
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Paracas textile
These pieces of cloth, made by the Paracas civilisation in South America, were found wrapped around a mummified body
Contributed by The British Museum
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Mexican football medal
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
POLDARK MINE. Immediately after the ...
Contributed by Museum
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Marriage Certificate - by Ethan
This object is my Great-Grandparents’ Marriage Certificate.
From the certificate I learned that they were married in ...
Contributed by Individual
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Hat and Whip
During the Great Depression my great grandfather went to Bolivia to set up a chinchilla farm. What they didn't realise ...
Contributed by Individual
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A Manaus oar
People have used oars since boats were built and we have this special oar that was built in Manaus for roughly 12 years. ...
Contributed by Individual
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Amethyst Geode
The stone was found by a Sheffield man, when he was on holiday in South America, over 30 years ago. He found it on the ...
Contributed by Individual
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Mexican codex map
Map of two Mexican towns, showing the impact of the Spanish conquest and survival of Mexican native society
Contributed by The British Museum
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Ivory Pieces from Trinidad
The rectangular piece of ivory is from Trinidad. I was brought up on a dairy farm and one of the lads emigrated to the ...
Contributed by Individual
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Double-headed serpent
Aztec turquoise mosaic of a double-headed serpent, probably worn on the chest for ceremonial occasions
Contributed by The British Museum
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Pieces of eight
The most common silver coin of late sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain became the world's first global currency
Contributed by The British Museum
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Inca gold llama
Small gold figurine created as a religious offering, possibly in a mountain top sacrifice - part of an Inca state ritual
Contributed by The British Museum
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Butterfly Wing tray from Manaus, Amazon
My uncle joined the Royal Navy as a young man and, before the second World War, his ship was sent on a courtesy visit to ...
Contributed by Individual
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Bahamian Tibetan Gods
In the 1970s I was head researcher in Nassau in the Bahamas. Every year there'd be a charity auction at Government ...
Contributed by Individual
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Lace-bark slippers from Jamaica
These slippers are made of the delicate mesh inner bark of the lace-bark tree, Lagetta lagetto, with soles of "cocoa ...
Contributed by Museum
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Tools for making and taking snuff
Many tribes in South America make a hallucinogenic snuff from the seeds of Anadenanthera peregrina var. peregrina, a ...
Contributed by Museum
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Maya maize god statue
Statue of a Maya maize god. Maize was the Maya's most important food and was worshipped as a god.
Contributed by The British Museum
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Olmec stone mask
A stone face made by Olmecs, the first Central American culture to build cities and develop writing.
Contributed by The British Museum
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Maya relief of royal blood-letting
Maya temple carving of Lady Kab'al Xook, piercing her tongue to induce pain and provoke a visionary trance
Contributed by The British Museum
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Peruvian Human Head Vessel
Pottery vessel in form of man's head made in red fabric with a cream slip(watery coloured clay). The clay was burnished ...
Contributed by Museum
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Taino ritual seat
Wooden seat carved in the shape of an ancestor spirit by the Taino, one of the pre-European, native Caribbean peoples
Contributed by The British Museum
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Moche warrior pot
Kneeling warrior pot made by the Moche, one of the first South American cultures to develop a state structure
Contributed by The British Museum
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Pot with hands
Borys Malkin, the anthropologist, used our family home as a storage depot. This is possibly a burial pot and was part ...
Contributed by Individual
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Shaman's Mask
This mask was made by the Tuscan people and used in ritual dance to symbolise antagonism towards enemies. The mask was ...
Contributed by Individual
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Small pot
Borys Malkin, the anthropologist, used our family home as a storage depot. This pot was part of his collection.
Contributed by Individual
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Burial pot
Borys Malkin, the anthropologist, used our family home as a storage depot. This pot was part of his collection.
Contributed by Individual
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Blow pipe
This was made by the Cofan people on the border of Ecuador and Columbia. These tribes were under threat from petroleum ...
Contributed by Individual
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Mason's tray
After my uncle's death, I found out that he and his wife were masons. The tray belonged to him and might have been a ...
Contributed by Individual
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Apothecary Ring
This is Helen's engagement ring which was bought second hand in a Jewellers in Bedford. It was made for the President of ...
Contributed by Individual
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infusion called mate
I started drinking mate in my adolescence with my friends and we would just sit around and share the mate while talking ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Rosary My Mother Gave Me
Given to me by my mother when I was five, the rosary means the devotion to Christ and Mary. History indicates that it ...
Contributed by Individual
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Flavio de Carvalho's 'New Look' for Men
Nine years after Dior’s New Look, in Brazil, the artist, engineer and fashion expert, Flavio de Carvalho as well ...
Contributed by Individual
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infusion called mate
I started drinking mate in my adolescence with my friends and we would just sit around and share the mate while talking ...
Contributed by Individual
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Sculpture of Huastec goddess
Sculpture of a goddess made by the Huastec people of Mexico, associated with the Aztec goddess of sexuality
Contributed by The British Museum
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Ceremonial ballgame belt
Stone version of a belt worn by players of a ball game, a popular sport in Mexico and Central America
Contributed by The British Museum
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Knob Kiri
This knob kiri was thought to be a walking stick. It has been kept in the milk churn in the hall along with the ...
Contributed by Individual
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Pair of Silver Bracelets
These were passed on to the contributor from an uncle in Trinidad, but she thinks he obtained them originally from a ...
Contributed by Individual
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Inca Pot
This little incense burner originates from South America and shows a ceramic design typical of the region. It’s been in ...
Contributed by Individual
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Elephant from the Caribbean
This elephant was brought back from the Caribbean by an aunt who travelled out to Curacao in the 1920s. She went out ...
Contributed by Individual
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Carnival mask (Dominican Republic)
This is a (miniature) carnival mask from the Dominican Republic, bought on Sosua beach in the only souvenir shop (stall) ...
Contributed by Individual
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Bracelet from the Phillipines.
This bracelet came all the way from the phillipines and my Uncle bought me as a gift when he visited there. Local women ...
Contributed by Individual
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Uruguayan Medallion
Obverse:
The type depicts the royal crest of King Pedro of Portugal while the legend reads: ...
Contributed by Individual
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Black clay ducks from Mexico
These black clay ducks belong to Alejandra Tapia Eguiarte from Mexico, but now resident in the UK.
Black clay has ...
Contributed by Individual
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Carved Whale's Tooth from HMS Beagle
Carved sperm whale's tooth, or Scrimshaw, from HMS Beagle. Copyright The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum
Contributed by Museum
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Peruvian Chachapoyan Huaco
Human shaped burial object that accompanied a Chacapoyan mummy on it’s trip to the afterlife
Contributed by Museum
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Figure of a Kneeling Slave
Earthenware figure of a kneeling African slave giving thanks for being liberated by Britain
Contributed by Museum
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Clay Statue from Central America
Statue made of clay. I think it is Maya or of that region of Mexico
It is probably extremely old.
Whatever it is, ...
Contributed by Individual
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Porcelain Dogs from Barbados
It represents wealth and they came from Barbados with my great great great great grandmother.
Contributed by Individual