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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.

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    Manierre Dawson's education in civil engineering contributed to his early experiments with abstract visual language. Well versed in mathemat...

     

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    Found 14 Items Tagged "inscribed"

    Shabty Box of AmunemhatHeadrest with Two Images of the God BesSenwosret IIIJug (Mashraba) with Human-Headed Inscription and Zodiac SignsKing Osorkon IHeadrest of ShemaiKohl Tube Inscribed for Amunhotep III and Queen TiyeBowl with Kufic InscriptionIllustrated PapyrusRing of Ramesses IVCylinder Inscribed with a Kings NameIncised Strombus-Shell TrumpetPlate (George Washington, James Garfield, & Abraham Lincoln)Model Vessel Inscribed for Amunhotep II
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