Collections: Items Tagged "africa"

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    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
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    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
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    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
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    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Brush Jar with an Imperial Inscription

This elaborately carved jade brush jar represents not the restraint usually associated with scholarly taste but the contrasting sumptuous de...

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: Headrest of Shemai

    This headrest—the Egyptian version of a pillow—was found in the tomb of a man named Shemai. Headrests were believed to have magi...

     

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    Found 97 Items Tagged "africa"

    Relief of Montuhotep IIIRoyal Statues in ProcessionPower Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)Reliquary Guardian Figure (Eyema-o-Byeri)Power Figure (Nkishi)Figure of Mother and Child (Phemba)Ritual KnifeGrave Marker (Tumba)Female Figure with Medicinal Charge (Musinju)Relief of AkhethotepMask (Nganga Diphombe)Ceremonial HoeCeremonial HoeWadjet-Eye AmuletThe Anxiety of Saint Joseph (Lanxiété de Saint Joseph)Burning African Village Play Set with Big House and LynchingOuter Sarcophagus of the Royal Prince, Count of Thebes, Pa-seba-khai-en-ipetPendant
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