Collections: Items Tagged "Animal"

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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...

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: Mummy and Cartonnage of Hor

    Cartonnage, linen covered with plaster and then painted, protected the mummy inside the coffin, while the symbols on it helped the deceased ...

     

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    Found 153 Items Tagged "Animal"


    Bowl, "Nathan"Teapot with Hinged CoverFigure of a CatThe Grazing HorseFragment of PaletteCrouching Youth Restrains a Bucking Ram in a LandscapeFawn Reclining (Faon de cerf couché)Jesus Before Herod (Jésus devant Hérode)Ceremonial Wine Vessel on WheelsBear and CanoeMoonriseThe Buck (Der Bock)Elephant Mask (Glao/Klolo)Panther Chasing a StorkTiger Reclining (Tigre couché)The Enchanted OwlHead of a BullSummers Fruitful Pastures
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