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Complete pounamu hei matau pendant. Cream and light brown with a pale green tint. Surface is ground smooth. Suspension hole drilled from both sides at the internal side of the head. There is an internal notch and an external knob at the head. A crack runs vertically along from mid-shank to the base, with a grey discolouration that may indicated it has been stabilised with some material. There is an indentation on one side of the base of the point. The point curves into a rounded, double-barbed tip. A piece of one side of the point has broken off.

Complete patu onewa. Butt is squared off. Two horizontal grooves and vertical notches on the proximal edge. Two semicircles are incised on one side below the proximal edge. Notches down on each of the four corners of the proximal end. Butt flares out slightly below these notches, with a perforation drilled from both sides. Five notches on each side edge where the handle meets the blade.

Fragment of ancient Roman mosaic floor, Hippo Regius

Complete string of 12 glass trade beads. They are of varying size, but all small. They are strung on a straight piece of muka, tied at both ends.

Complete pounamu adze. Cross-section is oval. Surface is mostly ground, with a sawing mark on the proper right side. Sides taper to the poll end, which may have a fragment missing. There is no differentiation between the butt and blade. There is a line that demarcates the bevel. The cutting edge is sharp and curved with small chips missing.

Jug for wine or oil (askos), late Minoan period, octopus decoration

Tokwampini was the messenger in Pukumani mythology. He became a jabiru (native crane) but tokwampini is a common Tiwi name for birds., Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri is a Tiwi artist, born on Melville Island, north of Darwin. He is a printmaker and master carver, known to begin work on his ironwood sculptures with a chainsaw, before finishing them with hand tools and painted details., He said, “My father taught me everything about carving, how to use carving tools, what wood to use and what colours. He was the late great Murrunungumirri (Paddy Freddy)”

Ceramic rhyton (for pouring liquid offerings) in shape of a bull. Cyprus. Late Bronze Age.

The Alabastron or cylindrical jar is a Mycenaean form adapted from Minoan Crete. Cyprus. Late Helladic period.

The Alabastron or cylindrical jar is a Mycenaean form adapted from Minoan Crete. Cyprus. Late Helladic period.

Shallow handled cup. Mycenae. Late Helladic period.

Dagger with the inscription lā fatā illā ʿAlī lā sayf illā Dhū’l-Faqār - "there is no Hero but Ali, and there is no sword but the Zulfiqar"