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armament accessory, ethnographic: sheath, knife
armament t&e, ammunition: sheath, knife
copper, fragment
Copper sheathing
Copper Sheathing
Copper sheathing nail
Copper sheathing [fragment]
copper [fragment]
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheathing, copper
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheathing, lead
Gurkha kukri sheath
Kife sheath
Knife
knife's sheath
Knife, Sheath
knife, sheath
knife in sheath
Knife sheath
Knife sheath part
Leather scabbard for sheath knife
Leather sheath
multiple use artifact: knife, sheath(sailmaker's)
multiple use artifact: knife, sheath(shipwrights)
multiple use artifact: sheath, leather(shipwrights)
personal gear: knife, sheath
personal gear: knife in sheath
relic, ship: copper fragment
relic, ship: sheathing, copper
relic, ship: sheathing, copper(fragment)
relic, ship: sheathing, copper(keel)
Scissors sheath
sheath
sheath, leather
Sheath for knife
sheathing
sheathing, copper
Sheath knife
shipbuilding t&e: knife, sheath(sailmaker's)
Snow knife sheath
Technical drawing
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 6th rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 28 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport: steam vessel: yacht
water transport accessory: sheathing, copper
water transport accessory: sheathing, copper(part)
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birch bark
black ink
blue colourwash
brass
brass alloy of copper, zinc and iron. originally gold, due to dezincification colour: black white brown, orange, green, gold
cardboard
caribou skin
copper
cotton
green ink
iron
leather
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metal: brass
metal: copper
metal: steel
metal: unknown
moose skin
organic: horn
organic: leather
organic: leather [sheath]
organic: wood [handle]
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pencil
pink colourwash
silver
textile: thread
tin
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Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
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Gormully, J.
Gustaffson, Johan
Muntz Metal Co Ltd
Sune Berkeman
Unknown
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Canada
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
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Alert (1856)
Bounty (purchased 1787)
Breadalbane (1843)
Culloden (1776)
Cutty Sark (1869)
Fox (1855)
Galatea (1859)
Imogene (1831)
Marlborough (1767)
Saturn (1786)
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The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
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Back, George
Blackett, J P
Correa de Araujo, Piedro
Fairbrother, F S
Fawckner, William Henry
Lacerda, M H Cavalcanti de
Marden, Luis
Mr Moverley
Parr, Alfred Arthur Chase
South Kensington Museum
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Copper sheathing from H.M.S. 'Bounty' (Copper sheathing)
H.M.S. 'Culloden' copper sheathing (Copper sheathing)
Copper Sheathing
sheathing, copper
muntz metal (sheathing)
Marlborough (1767) (Technical drawing)
H.M.S. 'Saturn' copper sheathing (Copper sheathing)
Gurkha kukri sheath
Knife
Sheath for knife
Knife sheath (Knife sheath)
Knife sheath (Knife sheath)
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