Collections: Items Tagged "Kongo"

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On View: Ointment Flask which Has Papyrus Plants Upon It

Vessels such as this contained small amounts of oil or perfume used for cosmetic purposes. The primary decoration—papyrus plants risin...

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: Milk Vase

    Early Dynasty 18 potters produced vessels with applied clay in the shape of a woman's head, arms, and breasts.The Ebers Medical Papyrus, a l...

     

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    Found 18 Items Tagged "Kongo"


    Figure of Mother and Child (Phemba)Elephant Tusk Carved with Figures in ReliefPower Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)Mask (Nganga Diphombe)Mask for the Okuyi Society (Mukudj)Standing Female FigureSide-Blown Horn (Mpungi) or (Kithenda)Figure of Mother and Child (Phemba)Figure of Mother and Child (Phemba)Male Figure with Strips of Hide (Nkisi)Staff-Rattle (Ntafu Maluangu)Kneeling Woman Holding a PipeMother and Child FigureStanding Male FigureChain with FiguresTop of Whistle (Nsiba)Hat (Mpu)Pot
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