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Cuneiform tablet, a list of groceries for messengers Sumerian, about 2033 B.C. Special Collections, Davidson Library Accueil by Rene Crevel designed by Dorothea Tanning and published in Paris, an example of book as object Special Collections, Davidson Library El Gaucho Martin Fierro by Jose Hernandez designed and published in Buenos Aires in 1937 Special Collections, Davidson Library Assorted machine parts and other objects, including a "round peg for a square hole" and an asymmetric spring which bounces in only two directions. Engineering Machine Shop (made by Greg Carver and Rob Lynch) The Leiter adaptation of Arthur's stencil design test, ca. 1949 Psychology Fossilized carnivore droppings about 55 million years old Courtesy of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing Geology A tassel from President Lincoln's box at Ford Theater Wyles Collection, Special Collections, Davidson Library (An example of paradoxa, or something that does not fit in an obvious category.) Cubic pyrite C. D. Woodhouse Collection, Geology Pyrite C. D. Woodhouse Collection, Geology

Dendrite C. D. Woodhouse Collection, Geology Rorschach Ink Blot Psychology Fossilized shark's tooth Paleontology Collection, Geology (These were commonly thought to be dragon's teeth in the sixteenth-century.) Hand-ax Anthropology Renaissance medal Morgenroth Collection, University Art Museum Bird Eggs Museum of Systematics and Ecology, Biological Sciences Plastic Dinosaur Egg Anthropology Ostrich Egg Art Studio Hornbill Museum of Systematics and Ecology, Biological Sciences Nest with Stone Eggs C. D. Woodhouse Collection, Geology Nautilus Shell Art Studio Abalone Shell Chemistry and Marine Biology