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Backstaff
Candle lantern
documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
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lighting device: lantern, candle(emigrant safety)
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surveying & navigational t&e: astrolabe, mariner's
surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, steering
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set: scenic)
water transport: native craft: canoe, birch bark (Beothuk Indian)
water transport: passenger/cargo vessel: emigrant trade
water transport: passenger vessel: emigrant ship
water transport: sailing vessel: snow, brig
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Adams, George
Bowdich, Thomas Edward
British School, 17th century
Bry, Johann Theodor de
Gilbert & Sons
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Martin, Benjamin
Murray, John
Price's Patent Candle Co Ltd
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Shanawdithit, Nancy
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‘Captain Argall takes Pocahontas the daughter of King Powhatan on board his ship’ (Print)
‘Indians slaughtering the English near Jamestown’ (Print)
Thomas Cavendish (1560-92), Sir Francis Drake (1540?-96) and Sir John Hawkins (1532-95) (Painting)
Backstaff
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Greenwich (Valentia) Astrolabe (Mariner's astrolabe)
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Canoe; Passenger/cargo vessel; Fishing vessel; Beothuk Birch Bark Canoe (Full hull model; Sewn model)
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Map of Virginia, 1615 (Print)
Akan knife and sheath (Knife)
The First Day of the Yam Custom (Print)
Steering compass
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