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1. Breastplate (body armor)

Object status:: Deaccessioned
Museum number:: 1-255016
Culture or time period:: Spaniards and Spanish American
Collector:: Donald Perry
Collection place:: Copper Mine Gulch, Bolinas Bay, Marin County
Collection date:: before 1915

2. Figure

Museum number:: 5-14361
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: height 37.2 centimeters
Collector:: Demba Thioune
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: unknown

3. Lamp

Museum number:: 7-5583
Object class:: Oil lamps
Function:: 1.5 Household
Dimensions:: height 17 centimeters
Collector:: Albert M. Bender
Collection place:: Germany
Collection date:: 1931-1933

4. Light fixture

Museum number:: 7-6012a-w
Collection place:: Europe

5. Messenger poker

Museum number:: 5-15667
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Function:: 7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Ife, Nigeria
Collection date:: unknown

6. Shackles

Museum number:: 5-15688
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Miniature (size attribute) and Shackles
Function:: 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: length 6.7 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Ife, Nigeria
Collection date:: 1937-1938

7. Shackles

Museum number:: 5-15689
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Shackles
Function:: 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: width 2.7 centimeters and length 3.1 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Collection date:: unknown

8. Staff

Museum number:: 5-15675
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Function:: 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: height 19 centimeters and diameter 5.1 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: unknown

9. Thumb piano

Museum number:: 5-9944a,b
Object class:: Gourds (plant components) and Sansas (thumb pianos)
Collection place:: Africa