Collections: Items Tagged "18th century"

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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: Dance Headdress (Ci-wara Kun)

    These headdresses, called ci-wara, represent antelopes, important animals in Bamana philosophy. The antelope’s power is a metaphor for...

     

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    Found 77 Items Tagged "18th century"

    Ndop Portrait of King Mishe miShyaang maMbulThe Carpenters Shop in NazarethPierre Van CortlandtSeido and Kanda River From Shohei Bridge, No. 47 from One Hundred Famous Views of EdoManco Capac, First Inca, 1 of 14 Portraits of Inca KingsGeorge WashingtonNecklaceStilt Step (Tapuvae)Side ChairDon Ignacio Leonel Gómez CervantesDona Mariana Belsunse y SalasarLady with an ArrowMrs. Benjamin Davis, née Anstice GreenleafPortrait of Thakur Sangram SinghCeremonial Wine Vessel on WheelsJohn HaskinsTea TableChrist of Chalma
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