What: An ammunition belt, with powder and shot
Where: The Duke of Wellington’s Regimental Museum, Bankfield Museum, Boothtown Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 6HG
One of a number of small items in the museum’s collection
What: Sword
Where: The Duke of Wellington’s Regimental Museum, Bankfield Museum, Boothtown Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 6HG
One of a number of small items in the museum’s collection
What: A buffalo hide shield, returned to Ethiopia by a Scottish academic in May, 2004
Where: The Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa
Professor Fiona Wilson returned this shield that her family had owned in Scotland since the late 19th century.
“Throughout my childhood the shield was hanging in the dining room of my parents’ house,” Fiona Wilson said at the ceremony when she handed over the shield to the Institute of Ethiopian Studies of the Addis Ababa University.
Wilson said her grandfather bought the buffalo-skin decorated in silver in the 1890s from a dealer and everyone believed it was Scottish.
“I discovered that I had become without realising it, the keeper of a small part of Ethiopia’s historical heritage and national treasure and decided to return it”, she added.
Quotes from Reuters report 31 May 04
What: Wooden stand for shell
Where: The National Museums of Scotland
Sources:
National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.L.367.12 A
Description: Wooden stand for shell: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Magdala, manufactured by King Theodore’s
European workmen
Acquisition source: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
What: Spherical cast iron shell
Where: The National Museums of Scotland
Sources:
National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.L.367.12
Description: Spherical shell of cast iron: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Magdala, manufactured by King Theodore’s European workmen
Acquisition source: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
What: Wooden club with swollen head
Where: The National Museums of Scotland
Sources:
National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.L.367.18
Description: Wooden club with swollen head: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, found in the state prison at Magdala
Acquisition source: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh