July 30, 2025 | Steven G. Alpert

Wooden Canoe Prow
© The Trustees of the British Museum

 
 
July 28, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Funerary mask
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)
900–1100 CE
Lambayeque (Sicán)
Gold, silver-copper alloy, cinnabar
Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1974, 1977
1974.271.35
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
July 25, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

The Bimaran Reliquary.
Reliquary casket, cylindrical in shape; made of gold and inset with garnets.
1900,0209.1
© The Trustees of the British Museum

 
 
July 23, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Left: Sword Hilt with a Horned Handle, Minoan or Mycenaean, 1520–1440 BCE
Bronze, gold, and ivory, with a modern acrylic blade
© Hellenic Ministry of Culture – HOCRED / Archaeological Museum, Chora, SN24-0044 / Photo © Palace of Nestor Excavations, Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati / Photo: Jeff Vanderpool
VEX.2025.1.16
Right: Dagger, Mycenaean, 1520–1360 BCE
Bronze, silver, and gold
© Hellenic Ministry of Culture – HOCRED / National Archaeological Museum, Athens, P8339
VEX.2025.1.6

 
 
July 21, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Two Kayans wrestling in Sarawak. 30512i
© Wellcome Collection

 
 
July 18, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Figurine de luohan. Chine, Fujian. 17e début 18e siècle. Pierres de Shoushan. Musée du Louvre
© GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre). Adrien Didierjean

 
 
June 30, 2025 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Male Ancestor Figure
© The Trustees of the British Museum

 
 
June 28, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Tsesah crest
Grassfields artist
18th century
Cameroon, Bamileke region
Bamileke
Wood
Purchase, Acquisitions and Rogers Funds, and Anonymous, James J. Ross, and Marian Malcolm Gifts, 2017
2017.35
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
June 26, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Figurative House Ornament (Detail)
Austral Islands, Raivavae
Wood
Donated by Sir George Grey in 1854
Oc1854,1229.120
© The Trustees of the British Museum

 
 
June 24, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Garuda, winged figure, carved wood, lacquer, gilt, painted, Tibet, pre 17th century. Purchased from J.C. Stevens.
IM.24-1910
© Victoria & Albert Museum

 
 
June 22, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Ritual Cabinet (Torgam)
Tibet; 19th century
Ground mineral pigments, wood
Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
C2011.16

 
 
June 19, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Mt. Fuji and Otodome Fall, about 1849-52
By Utagawa Hiroshige (1797—1858)
Colour-woodblock print
Collection of Alan Medaugh
© Alan Medaugh. Photography by Matsuba Ryōko