Ancestor Figures | Korwar
© Museum Nasional Indonesia | © Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen
Cloak made of weaved honeyeaters and honeycreepers bird feathers | 'ahu'ula'
Before 1778?
Hawaii
Honeycreeper feathers, honeyeater feathers, olona fiber
Associated with Captain James Cook
Previously owned by Captain Charles Clerke?
Oc,HAW.133
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Ceremonial seat, duho
Greater Antilles, Hispaniola. Taino
1280-1400, Gaïac wood, 42.4 × 30.4 × 71.5 cm
Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1950.77.1 Am
Photo: musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Hughes Dubois
Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon
Bronze Age
ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE
Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex
Silver, gold foil
Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, and James N. Spear and Schimmel Foundation Inc. Gifts, 1982
1982.5
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Buddha draped in robes portraying the Realms of Desire
550-577
Anyang, Henan province, China
Limestone
F1923.15
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Bronze shaft-hole (yue) axe with deity and tiger head designs, Early Western Zhou dynasty, ca. 1046—
© National Palace Museum
Large Carving of Human-like Face | © Dallas Museum of Art
Female Deity Figure | © Museum Fünf Kontinente
Figurative Lime Spatula | © The Trustees of the British Museum
Zoomorphic Tobacco Pipe | © The Trustees of the British Museum
War Canoe Prow Ornament | © Penn Museum
Buddhist Triad: The Buddha Enthroned on The Naga, Surrounded by Lokeshvara and Prajnaparamita
Angkorian period, late 12th to early 13th century
Cambodia, Siem Reap province, Prasat Bakong district, Roluos, Veal Kralanh
Bronze, mercury gilding
Phnom Penh, National Museum of Cambodia, contribution by Conservation d’Angkor (1970), Ga.2424
© Musée national du Cambodge, Phnom Penh / photo Thierry Ollivier / musée Guimet
Painted mummy sleeve of Panesy
Third Intermediate Period, c. 950-750 BC.
Thebes (Luxor), Egypt
Painted cartonnage (linen with plaster layer), gold leaf, wood
Purchase 1826
Inventory number: L.XII.3-c
Collection: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Photo © Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
South Wind, Clear Sky, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, early 1830s. Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849). Color woodblock print; 25.6 x 37.5 cm (10 1/16 x 14 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore, 1930.189
Dish with dragons and phoenixes
Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi mark and period (1662–1722)
Early 18th century
China
Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)
Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932
33.40.71
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hilt detail. Sword with scabbard, made of gold, steel, leather, enamel and gold lace, 1730/1770. Inv. OA1412.
Hilt detail. Sabre with scabbard, 1770/1800. Inv. OA1405.
© The Trustees of the Wallace Collection
Warrior's Headdress Ornament, Frontal Figure | Tap Lavong Kayo
© The Dallas Museum of Art
Female Figure (’Otua Fefine)
Early 19th century
Tonga, Ha'apai Islands
Whale ivory
The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979
1979.206.1470
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art
ZOOMORPHE BICÉPHALE NKISI NKONDI – KOZO, Kongo, République démocratique du Congo, bois, clous, fer, tissu, 36 x 67,5 x 25 cm, Musée Barbier-Mueller, photo Kim Chanel
Plateau à décor de dragon
Dynastie Liao ou Jin, 10e-13e siècles
Chine
Jade
Inv. 故玉002251
© Musée national du Palais, Taipei
Statue of Hemnetjerhornebkhaset
Egyptian, Dynasty 26, 664–526 BCE
Black granite
British Museum, London, EA29478
Image © The Trustees of the British Museum.
All rights reserved
VEX.2023.2.19
Figure pendant
Tairona artist(s)
900–1600 CE
Colombia
Tairona
Gold
Gift of H. L. Bache Foundation, 1969
69.7.10
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art