Images Dated 16th May 2018

Pottery cremation urn, from a grave at Loveden Hill, Lincolnshire, Anglo-Saxon, 6th-7th century. Artist: Unknown

Pottery cremation urn, from a cremation grave in a cemetery at Loveden Hill, Lincolnshire, Anglo-Saxon, 6th-7th century. The urn is decorated with deeply incised chevrons which are filled with horizontally set impressions of a stamp, producing four circular depressions perhaps made with a fragment of a bone comb. Currently in the British Museum

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Polynesian statuette of Tangaroa-up-in-the-sky. Artist: Unknown

Statuette of Tangaroa-up-in-the-sky the creator and sea-god of the Polynesians. From the British Museum's collection

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Skull of a dead Rain-Maker from New Ireland. Artist: Unknown

Skull of a dead Rain-Maker, with the features moulded and decorated. The skull is kept by a living rain-maker and is used in rain-making ceremonies. From New Ireland, from the British Museum's collection

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