Snuff Box Belonging to James FowlerGroam House Museum This snuff box is beautifully engraved with a message from the grateful East Ross Volunteers. Snuff was a very popular form of powdered tobacco and the snuff box, with its elaborate script, would have made an...
Buddha SculptureNairn Museum This Buddha sculpture is known to have come from Myanmar (previously known as Burma). British rule in Burma lasted from 1824 until it finally gained independence in 1948. During this time, some wealthy gentlemen collectors, including...
Wooden Spear with SnakeskinNairn Museum This Arab spear is known to have belonged to the Baggara or Chadian Arabs. It has a pointed leaf-shaped metal blade and a wooden shaft. Snakeskin is wrapped around it at both ends of the shaft. It is one of several unusual...
German Schu MineThe Highlanders’ Museum This wooden box is actually a ‘Schu mine’, used by the German Army in World War Two. It tells us about daily life for a soldier, and the kind of risks they would have faced. These small mines were particularly dangerous...
Green Steel HelmetThe Highlanders’ Museum This helmet tells us about the fate of one man captured by Nazis during World War Two. It belonged to a soldier from the 51st Highland Division. This regiment took part in the Dunkirk invasion during World War Two but...
