EditorialKnife lifter in sheath from the wreck of the East India dealer Hollandia, Knife, handle in scabbard, cylindrical tapering, handle, plain, flat upper end with partial imprint or original mounting (nailed coin?), illegible: ferrule, broken off, square ta...
EditorialKnife lifter from the wreck of the East India dealer Hollandia, Knife-handle, straight-sided: tapering, fragm or upper end, octagonal plate riveted on flat end, hollow core with original stuffing, Annet, Dutch East India Company, Hollandia (ship), anon...
EditorialOrbit silk with a pattern of horizontal bands with ovals on grid and bands with hexagons, filled with leafwork, birds, mammals and abstract ornaments, Orbit silk with 'layered' pattern of horizontal bands filled with ovals with birds and with mammals, ...
EditorialSugrīva bites off Kumhakar?a's nose and rips off his ears. Thrown to the ground to be crushed beneath Kumbhakar?a's feet, he bounds free and back towards Rāma. Kumbhakar?a returns to battle, gathering up monkeys and stuffing them into his mouth...
EditorialSugrīva bites off Kumhakar?a's nose and rips off his ears. Thrown to the ground to be crushed beneath Kumbhakar?a's feet, he bounds free and back towards Rāma. Kumbhakar?a returns to battle, gathering up monkeys and stuffing them into his mouth...
EditorialLinen bag of salt for mummification, Egyptian, New Kingdom, c1550-c1070 BC. In its most developed form, the mummification process took seventy-two days. To prevent the body from decaying, the internal organs were removed. The brain was not regarded as ...