An Ethiopian protective scroll. Materials: Natural vegetable dyes and ink on vellum.

An Ethiopian protective scroll. Materials: Natural vegetable dyes and ink on vellum.

An Ethiopian protective scroll. Materials: Natural vegetable dyes and ink on vellum.

Ethiopian iron prayer stand.

Ethiopian iron cross engraved with angels.

Ethiopian iron cross engraved with angels.

Dogon, medicine men, stone mortar and pestel, Dilibaye, Bankass, Mali.

Dogon bronze cross with christian influence

Byzantine pottery oil lamp

Byzantine pottery oil lamp

An elegant Bactrian wet-stone, the stone finial carved in the form of a rams head, the spiral shaped horns are silver wire braised onto the head using bronze.

Bactrian or Iranian aragonite finial from a hairpin, carved in the form of a poppy seed and with incised linear design.

A Bactrian hardstone amulet carved in the form of a tiger. Perforated for suspension.

Bactrian green-grey schist ritual object in tiger tooth shape.

Bactrian carved alabaster goblet.

An Asmat drum with abstract incised and relief carving on the body; the handle with openwork carving in the form of a sequence of three birds and curvilinear forms possibly representing snakes.