Ancestor Figure | Adu Sihara Salawa
© Musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac
Man Ray, La lune se lève sur l'île de Nias (The moon rises over the island of Nias)
© Man Ray Trust
Jarre avec le visage de Tlaloc, offrande 21
Zone archéologique du Templo Mayor, Mexico, Mexique, 1440-1469, céramique
© Museo del Templo Mayor-INAH, Ville de Mexico
Constantin Brancusi, La Muse endormie, 1910
Gift of Baroness Renée Irana Frachon, 1963
Collection Centre Pompidou
© Succession Brancusi − All rights reserved (Adagp)
© Centre Pompidou, MNAM−CCI/Adam Rzepka/Dist. RMN-GP
Left: Shield (dhal), 19th Century, Punjab
Right: Sword (shamshir) associated with Ranjit Singh, late 17th century
© The Trustees of the Wallace Collection
Left: Utagawa Hiroshige. Maple Trees at Mama, Tekona Shrine and Linked Bridge (Mama no momiji Tekona no yashiro Tsugihashi), no. 94 from 100 Famous Views of Edo, 1st month of 1857. Woodblock print. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Anna Ferris, 30.1478.94. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Right: Utagawa Hiroshige. Minowa, Kanasugi, Mikawashima (Minowa Kanasugi Mikawashima), no. 102 from 100 Famous Views of Edo, 5th month of 1857. Woodblock print. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Anna Ferris, 30.1478.102. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Left: Shield | Borneo © Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen
Middle: Shield | Koraibi | Mentawai © Dallas Museum of Art
Right: Shield | Borneo © Kulturhistorisk Museum Universitetet i Oslo
Portrait of a group of Yidinjdji men and boys standing out of doors, holding spears, boomerangs and shields, one man is lying on the ground holding a shield, one man is wearing a neck ornament, all have designs painted onto their bodies; North Queensland, Australia.
Black and white photograph, gelatin silver print. Photographed by A Atkinson, 1893. Oc,B73.33
© The Trustees of the British Museum
西周早期 獸面紋扉棱提梁卣 2007 隨州安居羊子山 4號鄂墓出土
Lidded you wine vessel with beast decoration and flanges
Excavated from E Yangzishan tomb no. 4 at Anju, Suizhou, 2007
Western Zhou period (ca. 1050–771 BCE), 1000–900 BCE Bronze
H. 49.5 cm, Diam. mouth 15.2 cm
Suizhou Municipal Museum
Anonymous 16th century Portuguese illustration from the codex known as the Códice Casanatense, or Casanata Codex. The inscription reads: "Gentile people from the Kingdom of Malacca they are called Malayos". Circa 1540. Album di disegni, illustranti usi e costumi dei popoli d'Asia e d'Africa con brevi dichiarazioni in lingua portoghese, Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome
明中期 緙絲龍紋圓補
Dragon medallion
Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
16th century
China
Silk and metallic-thread tapestry (kesi)
Fletcher Fund, 1936
36.65.33
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art
View of the new interior courtyard of the shrine of Fatima Masuma in Qum, Antoin Sevruguin, Iran, c. 1880-1896, albumen print, 20.2 x 26.9 cm, Museum Rietberg, 2023.10.58, Gift of the heirs of Emil Alpiger © Museum Rietberg, Zurich