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1. Tuyere (kiln part)

Tuyere (kiln part)

Date:: 1965 and 1966
Description:: End of a pottery tuyere used in a kiln; a tuyere is a tube through which air or oxygen is blown into a blast furnace, a ceramic blow tube to keep the furnace hot; origin Uganda.

2. Bellows

Date:: 1965 and 1966
Description:: Bellows used with tuyere and kiln; top skin and stick are missing; origin Uganda.

3. Small wooden pot

Small wooden pot

Date:: 1965 and 1966
Description:: Small wooden pot, crudely done; origin Ik people of Uganda.

4. Carved wooden figure

Carved wooden figure

Date:: 1951 and 1971
Description:: Wooden figure of Mbuti hunter with spear.

5. Unidentified wooden object; possibly, Chilean flamingo holder

Unidentified wooden object; possibly, Chilean flamingo holder

Date:: 1950 and 1979
Description:: Small wooden object, origin Tutsi people. Collector Colin Turnbull labeled the object "a parihuana holder."

6. Bamboo chair piece

Bamboo chair piece

Date:: 1951 and 1971
Description:: One of seventy bamboo pieces that comprise of an Mbata seat; origin Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Ndaka people.

7. Large format camera

Large format camera

Date:: 1905-1967, 1905, and 1967
Description:: Burke and James large format viewfinder with Bausch and Lomb lens.

8. Brass Menorah

Date:: 1951 and 1989
Description:: Brass menorah, possible origin Ethiopia.

9. Plaque, October 10, 1976

Plaque, October 10, 1976

Date:: 1976-10-10
Description:: Florence Association of Classroom Teachers plaque awarded to Septima P. Clark.

10. Metal cross

Date:: 1900
Description:: Processional cross designed to be worn on a staff. One side depicts a figure holding a Bible, and the other depicts the the Virgin and Child. Origin Ethiopia.