Collections: Arts of the Americas

  • 1st Floor
    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Ox Mask (Dugn'be)

Masks representing dugn’be, meaning “the ox raised in the village,” are used in young men’s initiation ceremonies in...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Folding Invalid Chair

    This folding chair can assume more than fifty positions. The design for the chair is derived from European late eighteenth-century portable ...

     

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    Mantle, known as The Paracas Textile, FragmentsCylindrical VesselTunicLife-Death FigureDouble Spout and Bridge BottleHouse Post, from a Set of FourCrucifixTotem Pole for the "House which is a Trail"Raven RattleShirt for Chiefs War DressBaleen Whale MaskMaking Babies for Indian MarketPlaqueWater JarShirtSpeaker Figure
     
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