Ceremonial Mat | Lampit
Paminggir peoples
Lampung
19th century
Split rattan and bast fiber with pyrographic design
The Steven G. Alpert Collection of Indonesian Textiles
Gift of The Eugene McDermott Foundation
1983.81
© Dallas Museum of Art
唐 韓幹 照夜白圖 卷
Night-Shining White
Han Gan (Chinese, active ca. 742–756)
Tang dynasty (618–907)
ca. 750
China
Handscroll; ink on paper
Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1977
1977.78
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Courtesy of Mediacorp. Photo: IFA Media
Female Ancestor Image
Lake Sentani
Before 1926
Wood, dyes, polychromy
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen
Mask for No theatre. Shikami.
Made by Deme Mitsunori 出目満矩
1700-1729
Edo Period
Wood, gold, lacquer
Donated by R D Darbishire in 1886
Previously owned by Yamauchi Toyoshige 山内豊信
1886,1207.9
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Shadow puppet representing chariot and bells
Bali, Indonesia
Painted rawhide, wood
Acquired through the George and Mary Rockwell Fund, and gift of the Estate of Louise Taraldson Woods, by exchange
2008.073.039
© Johnson Museum of Art
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