December 2012
Contemporary walrus ivory, spermwhale tooth and reindeer antler carvings from a private collection in Kangaamiut, West Greenland. | ||
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Photos: Kerstin Pasda, July 2012. |
October 2012
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Bone arrowheads excavated from sites in Henan Province, China. Left and Middle: Duzhong, Mianchi County, Neolithic, late Yangshao Culture (5000-3000BC), inv. no. 06MDH26B1-1+2. Right: Chenjiagou, Wenxian County, Bronze Age, Xizhou Dynasty (1045-771BC), inv. no. 2005JWZCT23H111:3.Photos and information: Hou Yanfeng |
September 2012
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Photo: Küchelmann |
Chair consisting of nine pieces of whale ribs as back and arm rests and a scapula as seat. The scarce available information makes it probable that the chair was once given as a present by the Sultan of Zanzibar to captain Valois of the ship SMS Gneisenau in 1891. The chair is part of the collection of the Senckenberg Institut Frankfurt and currently on display at the Wattenmeerhaus Wilhelmshaven. Height 1,14 m, width 0,86 m, depth 0,84m. Reference:
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August 2012
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These telescopes, five in total, have been found by the Office for Monuments and Archaeology (Bureau Monumenten & Archeologie, BMA) in the city of Amsterdam at different sites. The telescopes are dated to the 18th century and were used as pocket telescopes for personal use. The raw material were cattle metatarsals and in two telescopes the glass lenses were still intact. The longer telescopes consists of two pieces with an aperture stop in the middle to get a sharper view.
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April 2012
February 2012
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Antler belt buckle coming from the Late Bronze Age settlement Baley. The settlement site is located on Timok-Danube confluence where Serbian-Romanian-Bulgarian borders meet. Unfortunately, this piece comes from poor stratigraphic context, but the site itself was occupied between 1600-1100 BC. I was told by Nick Boroffka that one should expect to find parallels to this piece in Bronze Age Hungary, but I couldn’t so far. So, if you have come across a similar piece, please let me know. If you look carefully you will notice elaborate incised design on the outer surface. The piece is on display, so I couldn’t take exact measurements, but it is ca. 10cm long. |
January 2012
These tools for sewing, knitting and crocheting have been used by my grandmother in the first half of the 20th century in Bremen, northern Germany. Hans Christian Küchelmann |
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