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Guest Post – Spotlight on a Yoruba gelede mask

...1900 and 1910. The mask is one of 200 items of Yoruba and Benin origin in the RAMM. The Yoruba is a group of about ten million people and is...

The ban on the sale of ivory

...ivory from Africa, Asia and the Pacific produced before 1900. Some of these items may even be worked mammoth ivory Fine art items such as portrait miniatures painted on a...

Guest post – Spotlight on a Yoruba carved figure

...Yoruba carved figure from Nigeria; the students uncovered a wealth of information about the object: “District Officer” – an early-mid 20th century figurine, produced between 1900 and 1925, by Yoruba...

Sir Francis Carruthers Gould

Gould, a political cartoonist and book illustrator was born and educated in Barnstaple, Devon. He became a regular contributor to a range of magazines and journals including Truth and the...

Primrose League medal

The Primrose League was a conservative political movement, founded in 1883. Over the next two decades it became the largest voluntary mass movement in British political history. Medals and...

One handled vase

This vase was created between 1900 and 1910 at Aller Vale Pottery. The pottery was situated in Kingskerwell, a quiet South Devon village found between Newton Abbot and Torquay. It...

Mbrammuo

Merchants used these copper alloy weights as a standard for weighing gold dust when trading. This weight, made before 1900, has an intricate design that was probably influenced by Asante...

Flower vase

This vase was created between 1900 and 1905 at Aller Vale Pottery. The pottery was situated in Kingskerwell, a quiet South Devon village found between Newton Abbot and Torquay....

Evening mantle

This evening mantle was made in Japan around 1900 to 1910 specifically for the western market. It is made in white silk, the cut is based on a Chinese robe...