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1. Iron statuette

Description:: Bearded elongated figure holding a bow and arrow. A container hangs from both his hip and back. Origin Burkina Faso.

2. Foot pedal

Date:: 20th century, 1900, and 1999
Description:: Wooden foot pedal with long cord, possibly used to operate flash or lights.

3. Lenses

Date:: 20th century, 1900, and 1999
Description:: Two large photographic lenses.

4. Slave badge

Description:: Copper slave badge imprinted "Charleston No. 261 Fruiterer 1812." The badge is a contemporary counterfeit--"Fruiterer" is not a known occupation to be printed upon slave badges.

5. Focusing cloth

Date:: 20th century, 1900, and 1999
Description:: Fabric used when focusing camera. Blocks outside light so photographer can see through the lens.

6. Brass liquid sprinkler with intricate support

Brass liquid sprinkler with intricate support

Description:: Intricate brass support with a cupperhood in the shape of a cobra that holds a brass bowl. The bowl has a perforated hole that is used to drip liquid. Original description from Colin Turnbull reads "brass Vvandi bowl support Lingham in clothed Lotus."

7. Flash with reflector

Flash with reflector

Description:: Graflex brand flash aparatus.

8. Lady Ann (Kenya)

Lady Ann (Kenya)

Date:: 21st. Century
Description:: Smoothly finished art pottery piece with predominantly orange and green coloration. Heart-shaped jar, orange with green and black spots. Smooth finish. Jar stopper designed as a woman without facial features wearing a gele (headtie) and two green earrings.

9. Cast iron kettle

Cast iron kettle

Description:: Cast iron kettle with wire handle. Lid is imprinted "ROME GA SO -CO - OP F'DY - CO" (Southern Cooperative Foundry Company; Rome, Georgia).

10. Stone sculpture

Stone sculpture

Description:: Black smooth stone sculpture of a woman holding a female child.