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Cabinet - Sources

Drawing of Saami children
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BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Georg Christoph Stirn, 1638
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On Two British Columbian House-Posts...’ (1899)
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BSH13: Silver bar-ingot (complete).
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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Произведение искусства Сюзан Бушнак (Узбекистан)
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Cotton scale (Tajikistan)
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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"Homesteads for Women" by Fanny Shepherd.
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Val and Ken Wyatt
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Porter's note
Bladder fish
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Casting from life, c. 1560-70
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Architecture: The Five Orders
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Stradanus, Distillation (Nova Reperta)
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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Drawing of an Alchemical House from Libavius (1606)
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