73/2007
Accompanying letter, forwarded from Woodspring Museum,: “681 Joseland Bayemo Atlantic Road South Weston-super-Mare 9 Aug.
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286/1998/1
Iron staff composed of miniature tools a blacksmith could make (arrowhead, hammer, cutlass, shackles, cult objects for other groups).
126/1935/1
U’a janiform staff, inlaid with fish vertebrae and obsidian eyes.
E1216
This bifacial staff, u’a, has obsidian inlay in the eyes of both faces.
33/1953/3
Made of toromiro wood, the eye sockets of this staff, now empty, would would have formerly been inlaid with obsidian.
E1644
In Maori tradition, the tokotoko is a symbol of authority and the status of a speaker on the Marae (or meeting place).
33/1953/9a
Tokotoko or Orators staff.
E1415
Kneeling female figure on a column below double axehead.
57/1938/26
Staff of office incorporating bird figure and carefully wrought iron terminal.
66/1938/20/1
This is an emblem of membership to the Ogboni (or Osugbo) society.
64/1974/51
The staff has a representation of a bird with a curved beak, surrounded by eight pointed schematic bird projections.
64/1974/52
This staff depicts a bird at the centre, surrounded by implements: arrowhead, cutlass, ring, hoe, chisel, billhook, gong.
66/1938/3b
Cast copper alloy figure of Oba on an iron rod (broken).
66/1938/19
Cast copper alloy figure of an Oba on an iron rod sheathed in copper alloy.
9/1889/55
This European-styled finial mvwala is in the form of a leopard, which was a major emblem of political power among the Kongo peoples.
TTNCM : 172/1989
Stained glass windows lit the churches and monasteries of medieval Somerset.
17/2021
A late 16th century stained glass panel that depicts the Bampfylde family crest.
53/1936
The balustrade was salvaged from the Free Grammar School (St Johns School) in Exeter in the 1930s.
1895/12/71
Tillet stamps were a marketing device used for Exeter’s woollen cloth exports.
1895/12/19
1895/12/84
1895/12/28
59/2000/4
Bamboo stamps were used to apply geometric and repeating patterns to barkcloth.
1895/12/85
1895/12/70
59/2000/5
1895/12/92
1895/12/68
59/2000/6
1895/12/93