February 29, 2024 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Belu Ceremonial Mask | Biola
© The Dallas Museum of Art

 
 
February 28, 2024 | Barbara Watson Andaya
 

Shadow puppet of battle scene, 'Prampogan'. | Java
As1859,1228.606
© The Trustees of the British Museum

 
 
February 27, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Dague
Bronze
2500-1800 avant J.-C.
Région de Bayankhongor
© Collection Erdennechuluun Purevjav & Nemekhbayar Nadpurev. Mongolie

 
 
February 25, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Marble female figure
3 1/8 × 7 3/4 in. (8 × 19.7 cm)
Cycladic
ca. 2500–2400/2300 BCE
Marble
Leonard N. Stern Collection, Loan from the Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Culture
Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Bruce Schwarz

 
 
February 22, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Antropo-zoömorf masker / Masque anthropo-zoomorphe / Anthropo-zoomorphic mask. Luulu, Katanga, RD Congo. [Luba]. 2nd quarter of the 19th century. Wood (Ricinodendron rautanenii). Purchase from the widow of O. Michaux. 1919. EO.0.0.23470. Photo J. Van de Vyver, MRAC Tervuren ©

 
 
February 20, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Textile, Iran, 1600–1630 CE. Silk and metal-wrapped thread, TE.204.2010. Photo: © Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

 
 
January 31, 2024 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Figure | Kihawahine
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Claudia Obrocki

 
 
January 30, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Shaman’s Rattle in the Form of an Oystercatcher, early 19th century. Tlingit peoples. Alaska. Wood, paint, metal, and sinew, 5 3/8 × 15 3/8 × 3 3/8 in. (13.7 × 39 × 8.6 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the Heye Foundation, The Museum of the American Indian

 
 
January 29, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

China, Eastern Han dynasty (25-220)
Belt buckle, 1st-2nd century
Gold, turquoise, and agate
Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton 2002.10.1
© The Minneapolis Institute of Art

 
 
January 28, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Yajna Varaha: Boar Incarnation of Vishnu
Sunaari village, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India; 900–1099 CE
Red sandstone
Vidisha District Archaeological Museum, State Department of Archaeology Archives and Museums, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh, India 
135 (h) x 61 (w) x 145 (d) cm
© Vidisha District Archaeological Museum, State Department of Archaeology Archives and Museums, Government of Madhya Pradesh, India (1919)