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: Palette in the Shape of a Boat

This palette apparently represents a Nile boat with upcurved prow and stern and a small cabin amidships. Boats played an important role in E...

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: Ritual Wine Vessel (Guang)

    The Chinese were one of the first cultures to develop sophisticated bronze casting technology. Most of the early Chinese bronzes that have s...

     

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    Tetrapod Bowl with LidMantle, known as The Paracas TextileCrucifixHouse Post, from a Set of FourDouble Spout and Bridge BottleLife-Death FigureTunic (Uncu)Cylindrical VesselKachina Doll (Kokopol)Totem Pole for the "House which is a Trail"War Chiefs Carved Pipe StemMaking Babies for Indian MarketBaleen Whale MaskShirt for Chiefs War DressRaven RattleAwl Case
     
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    "Dear Sara, This pipe stem was collected between 1833-1836 from Fort Snelling, Minn. by Dr. Nathan Sturgus Jarvis. It was attributed to the Mdewakanton based on stlistice characteristics that have been confirmed by Emma Handen, Curator of the Plains Indian Museum. Susan Kennedy Zeller, Associate Surator Native American Art"
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    "Could you tell me why they are labeled maybe Sisseton? Thank-you, Sara Childers"
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    "Could you tell me why it is labeled Mdeewakanton? What time frame was the pipe acquired by the donor? Thank-you, Sara"
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