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| National Maritime Museum, Greenwich |
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| Ships' figureheads |
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| Wampum belt, made in 2007 |
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| I chose the wrong angle. Start again. |
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| Ah that's better! |
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| The "strings" brought on a fit of impatience |
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| Next time I'll look at the negative space |
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| Much of the Atlantic Gallery dealt with the slave trade |
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| Sue tackled the neck ring too |
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| Good shapes but what a lot of suffering they wrought |
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| Into a brighter space; a case of navigation instruments . This is a binnacle. |
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| With the iron balls left white, it has a completely different aspect |
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| The "lids" closed, and open |
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| Inside is the compass. The ship's metal hull would affect the magnetism of the compass needle, so the balls are needed to counteract that. Note the one on the left. |
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| Sue drew a binnacle too, dating to 1909, made in Glasgow - and an astrolabe with qibla point made in Syria in 1230 |
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| Later, comparing sketchbooks, we found we'd drawn the same helmet during different visits to the Wallace Collection |
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