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McLean, Christine
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Barkcloth dance masks from Papua New Guinea
Three dramatic barkcloth masks offer an insight into the traditional beliefs and celebrations of the Elema people from the Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea, at the turn of the 20th century.Adams, Victoria
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Panjab Connections: a Young Roots Heritage Project at National Museums Scotland
The Panjab Connections project focused on the fascinating story of Maharaja Duleep Singh, widely regarded as the first Sikh resident in Scotland. He was a Maharaja aged five, but by the age of fifteen Duleep Singh was deposed and exiled to Britain, where he spent his teenage years in Perthshire....Voigt, Friederike ; Nicolson, Rosanna ; Bennison, Laura
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Dating Knowth
The aim of this book is to present the archaeological history of the achievements of the passage tomb builders who constructed and used the great mound (Tomb 1) at Knowth over a period of at least three centuries, c. 3200–2900 BC. This was a time of change, and the monuments...Schulting, Rick ; Bronk Ramsey, C ; Reimer, Paula ; Eogan, George ; Cleary, Kerri …
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The land before symbol stones
Gondek, Meggen ; Noble, Gordon
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Revolution and revitalization: the War of Independence and its aftermath (catalogue)
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition (On the Trails of the Iroquois) provides insights into the historical and cultural context of the exhibits and their makers. In addition, it also highlights the importance of the ethnographic collections held by museums today for an understanding of a fascinating people and their culture.Allan, Stuart
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Embroidered stories
Helen Wyld introduces an extraordinary collection of Scottish needlework which records lives that would otherwise have been forgotten.Wyld, Helen
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Comment: Exhibition honours Commonwealth Scots
It is appropriate that Scotland’s links to the Commonwealth are in the public consciousness as the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War is marked.Allan, Stuart
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The glass bead
Cults Loch, at Castle Kennedy in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, loch lies within a landscape rich in prehistoric cropmark sites and within the loch itself are two crannogs, one of which has been the focus of this study. A palisaded enclosure and a promontory fort on the shores of the...Hunter, Fraser