Curiosities in the Archaeological Collection

Southampton's collections include a small number of interesting and unusual items which are apparently unrelated to the city. The provenance of most of them is unknown - they may have formed part of the Hartley Collection, given to the city in 1912 - or are donations to the museum from local people who had travelled or lived abroad.

These objects come from all over the world. They include:

• Drums and musical instruments, spears and shields and personal ornaments from Africa
• Wooden clubs from Polynesia
• Aboriginal tools and a boomerang from Australia
• Native American stone arrowheads
• Balinese sculpture
• A stone figure and ceramics from Central America

There is also archaeological material from ancient Greece and Egypt.

• Show all Ethnographic finds
• Find out about our Egyptian collection