A Southern Highlands shield.

Superb old Eastern Highlands war shield with white ochre decoration, cane binding, cassowary feathers and incised lines.

An old Highlands war shield, the anterior surface decorated with pecked designs.

An old Mendi war shield.

A North Queensland rainforest wooden shield

A Western Highlands war shield.

Mesopotamian clay tablet and fragmentary envelope with cuneiform inscription

Islamic brass bowl with benedictory writing, such a bowl used to cure illness by drinking from it.

Mesopotamian clay fragmentary tablet with cuneiform inscription

Islamic brass bowl with benedictory writing.

Khorassan bronze stemmed ribbed bowl with Kufic script.

Islamic brass bowl with benedictory writing, such a bowl used to cure illness by drinking from it.

A large bronze ring set with a black hardstone bezel with a fine intaglio engraving of a unicorn facing an altar, with three signs from the Indus Valley script in the field.

Khorassan bronze lidded inkwell.

An Indian bronze inkwell

Ethiopian Islamic writing board from a madrasa, with script in black ink.