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  • Pendant or receptacle, Ancient American
  • Pendant of ivory of Madonna and Child.
  • Heart shaped pendant.
  • [Richardson electrical pendant].
  • Graeco-Roman bronze phallic pendant.
  • Graeco-Roman bronze phallic pendant.
  • Graeco-Roman bronze phallic pendant.
  • Graeco-Roman bronze phallic pendant.
  • Graeco-Italian ceramic; pendant semicircle cup
  • 'Aetites', substance mounted in silver as a pendant.
  • Eye-shaped piece of rock crystal mounted as pendant.
  • Zahnfeige, mounted as a pendant, for infants when teething (?orris root).
  • Portrait of a man wearing a toothpick as a pendant. Attributed to Alessandro Olwerio
  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears
  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears
  • New Zealand: a Maori chief's wife wearing tiki and pendant. Photograph of a painting by Gottfried Lindauer, 1884.
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Closed)
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Open)
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Open)
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Closed)
  • Shaman's charm of bone carved in Totemic British Columbia. North West Coast of America. Designs representing the Octopus and anthropoozomorphic bird. Abalone inlays in eyes. Hole pierced at top for pendant.
  • Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 2e. tableau, De l'état naturel des symphyses, et des altérations qu'elles peuvent éprouver pendant la grossesse et l'accouchement / École départementale de l'Ain.
  • Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique, contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, l'origine, les mœurs, le religion & le gouvernement des habitans anciens et modernes. Les guerres & les evenemens singuliers qui y sont arrivez pendant le séjour que l'auteur y a fait / Par le r. p. Labat.
  • Crosses and pendants.
  • A mirror image of a woman wearing an open-necked shirt and beaded necklace with a heart pendant; with a message in Italian about how she is faithful condoms but not always to her 'Regazzo'; one of a series of safe sex posters from a 'Stop AIDS' campaign by Aiuto AIDS Svizzero in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A mirror image of a woman wearing an open-necked shirt and beaded necklace with a heart pendant; with a message in Italian about how she was not faithful to her ex but is to condoms; one of a series of safe sex posters from a 'Stop AIDS' campaign by Aiuto AIDS Svizzero in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A mirror image of a woman wearing an open-necked shirt and beaded necklace with a heart pendant; with a message in Italian about how she is not always faithful in her [sexual] fantasies but she is in real life; one of a series of safe sex posters from a 'Stop AIDS' by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with l'Aide Suisse contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • Krebsaugen, 2 pendants, one consisting of a group of three.
  • A vase-painting: a head in profile to left, wearing an embroidered cap and ear-pendants. Coloured engraving.
  • A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Short hair, necklet and ear pendants of coix seeds. Lips sewn together, no threads hanging.