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: Helmet Mask (ndoli jowei) for Sande Society

The ceremonies of the Sande society are the only occasions in Africa in which women customarily wear wooden masks. Masks like this one repre...

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: Amulet of Rabbit

    Living persons wore only one or a few amulets at a time, but mummies usually bear many amulets. The Ma’at amulet (no. 2) and heart sca...

     

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    Kero CupPainted Elk Hide RobeSpear CaseTipi LinerEngraved TuskEarth Monster (Cipactli)Antelope Kachina DollCarved Trick ChestRectangular Box with CoverMiniature MantleScalping Knife and SheathSkirtSeated FigureCanine Effigy Pipe StemWar Chiefs Carved Pipe StemDecorated Shirt
     
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