Sacred carving (jaraik). Form inspired by a squatting gibbon. Wood, macaque skull, mother-of-pearl pigment, rattan strips. 177.8 x 143.5 x 30.5 cm. Samalakopa, Taileleu, South Siberut, ca. 1930. The Dallas Museum of Art. The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund. Inc. 2001.265
Dagger (khanjar)
North India
early 17th century
Watered steel, gold, diamond, ruby, emerald, cat’s-eye chrysoberyl, rock crystal, enamel
OA1409
© The Wallace Collection
Flaming Karma mirror on lion-shaped pedestal, 1600-1700
Wood with polychrome pigments, metal
© National Museum of Korea, LKH4302
Kitchen Scene
c. 1794/95
Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿
Japanese, c.1753-1806
Color woodblock print; oban diptych
Clarence Buckingham Collection
1925.2289
© The Art Institute of Chicago
Zoomorphic Limestone vessel. Mayo-Chinchipe culture, Ecuador (ca. 3500-1700 BCE). Colección Nacional. Reserva Arqueológica Quito. Museo Nacional del Ecuador, Ministerio de Educación, Deporte y Cultura
Painted wooden xuangu drum with pedestal design of phoenixes on tigers’ backs, middle Warring States period, c. 400-300 BCE.
A striking representation of the Chu style
Loan courtesy of the Xiangyang Museum
Staff God | Atua rakau
Rarotonga, circa 1800
William Ockleford Oldman Collection
Gift of the New Zealand Government, 1992
© Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Tatltatlumtl transformation mask
Kwakwaka'wakw
British Columbia, Canada
Painted wood, graphite, cedar, canvas, rope, plant fibers, metal
71.1951.35.1
© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, photo Hughes Dubois
The wealthy Wayan Buyar, the son of Gede Kedampal, presents himself
I Gusti Nyoman Lempad
Ubud, Bali
1955-1958
Paper, ink, cinnabar, gold leaf
7359-4
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen
Statue of Gudea known as "with a gushing vase"
AO 22126
© 2019 Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Raphaël Chipault
Head of King Tutankhamen
1336–1327 B.C.
Sandstone
Museum purchase with funds donated by Miss Mary S. Ames
Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Trellised Targe for the Tilt
German, Augsburg
ca. 1550–60
Steel, gold
Rogers Fund, 1904
04.3.105
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art