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Canopic jar of Horudja

The jars used to contain the removed organs from a mummy wer…
Sámi Shaman's drum

The Sámi people live in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland …
Insurance certificate for part of Montagu House

The Trustees of The British Museum bought Montagu House in 1…
Sir Hans Sloane, an engraving from a portrait by T. Murray

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the founder of The British M…
Ivory figure of Chi She

Chi She is shown a woman suckling an old woman (her mother-i…
Hans Sloane's specimen tray

This drawer was once part of the materia medica - a sort of …
Skull of a rhinoceros hornbill

Until recently, it had been assumed that all the birds origi…
Snuff box

Eighteenth-century collectors like Sir Hans Sloane (1660-175…
Model tikinagan, or cradle

This model cradle is constructed from a wood board, with a s…
The British Museum Act of 1753 (26 Geo. II cap. XXII)

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) owned huge collections of books,…
Chinese seals

These two seals once belonged to the great collector Sir Han…
Ivory figure of Xiwangmu

Xiwangmu, the Queen Mother of the West, is one of China's mo…
Wooden shoe

The existence of a number of shoes in the founding collectio…
Bronze goose

This goose was once a lamp lid. Similar lids with figures in…
Birds of paradise

Europeans first became aware of birds of paradise in the six…
Curiosities from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753)

It was the collection of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), one of…
Giovanni Machion, Plants from the garden at Padua, an album

This volume of plants used in medicine is one of four prepar…
Hans Sloane, Natural History of Jamaica, a book

This book provides a remarkable account of the travels and o…
Terracotta portrait bust of Sir Hans Sloane by Michael Rysbrack

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), who trained as a doctor, was Pr…
Three tin-glazed earthenware chocolate cups

One of these chocolate cups can definitely be traced to the …
Venus and Adonis, attributed to Francesco Fanelli

When this small figure group was in the collection of Sir Ha…
Henri Le Roy, Le Jardin de Sauterelles et Papillons, Plate 13, an engraving

The full title of this set of fifteen prints may be translat…
Shoes collected by Hans Sloane

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose collection helped to foun…
Hans Sloane's collection of shells

The great collector Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) began acquir…
Brass astrolabe with silver inlay

This astrolabe has seven latitude plates. The rete is marked…
Burial urn

This handmade pottery urn (known as a Buckelurne) is similar…
Plaquettes illustrating scenes from the life of Christ

The lead plaques record a set of designs illustrating Christ…
The Sloane Astrolabe

The so-called Sloane Astrolabe is one of the oldest and most…
Pointed flint handaxe

This flint handaxe was found in gravel near the bones of an …

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