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Title: Apron
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1983/2.189
Medium and Support: cloth, beads and cowrie shells
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:21:59
Secondary Keywords: africa (continent); beadwork; combination inorganic/organic animal material; combination inorganic/organic material; costume; costume by form; costume by function; descriptors; geographic and political locations; main garments; main garments for the lower body; materials; materials by composition; objects we use; protective wear; shell (animal material); shell and shell material

Title: The Good Thief on the Cross
Artist: Artist Unknown, School of Kalkar, Germany
Physical Description: A bearded man, wearing a loincloth and a long trailing headband, hangs from a cross by his arms, which have split open beneath the ropes that bind them. His left leg hangs downward and passes behind his right foot, which perches precariously on a forked branch. He strains to his left and gazes upward with his mouth open in a tortured movement augmented by the dramatic sweeps of drapery that frame his torso.
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1520
Accession Number: 1976/1.233
Medium and Support: walnut with polychrome
Date Added/Updated: 2013-12-20 16:14:33
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; costume; costume by form; europe (continent); events; executions; geographic and political locations; germany (nation); main garments; main garments for the lower body; objects we use; people and culture; religions; religions and religious concepts; religious visual works; visual works; visual works by function

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Title: Grape Picker
Artist: Antonio Frasconi
Physical Description: This two-color woodcut in black and pale pink depicts a standing female figure against a black background in vertical format. The figure is shown bending over collecting grapes in the folds of her apron. Her skirt is decorated in a bird motif and her hair is windswept. The verso of this print contains an announcement for an exhibition at Weyhe Gallery in New York in March and April of 1951.
Artist Life Dates: 1919-2013
Object Creation Date: circa 1951
Accession Number: 2012/2.187
Medium and Support: two-color woodcut on laid paper
Date Added/Updated: 2013-05-08 13:07:57
Secondary Keywords: agricultural functions; costume; costume by form; descriptors; food; fruit; functions; functions (activities); functions by specific context; main garments; main garments for the lower body; materials; materials by function; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by gender; visual works; visual works by subject type

Title: Cache-Sexe
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Kirdi
Century: late 19th - early 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1890-1920
Accession Number: 2000/2.74
Medium and Support: brass and glass beads with cowrie shells
Date Added/Updated: 2012-11-25 18:26:55
Secondary Keywords: beads and sets of beads; combination inorganic/organic animal material; combination inorganic/organic material; costume; costume accessories; costume by form; descriptors; main garments; main garments for the lower body; materials; materials by composition; object genres; object genres by form; objects of adornment; objects we use; shell (animal material); shell and shell material

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Title: Untitled [Child with straw leggings]
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Physical Description: A child ventures out into the deep snow, holding up his broad leggings which are insulated with straw. Behind him, the house wall is plastered with two messages: "Careful with fire!" and "Felecitations for the Spring Equinox".
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: mid 20th century
Accession Number: 1998/2.31
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Date Added/Updated: 2012-11-25 18:25:55
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; buildings and the land; costume; costume by form; declaratory and advertising artifacts; descriptors; earth sciences concepts; image-making processes and techniques; information artifacts; information artifacts by function; information forms; main garments; main garments for the lower body; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; open spaces and site elements; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by age group; physical activities; physical activities by general context; physical sciences concepts; precipitation; processes and techniques; processes and techniques by specific type; scientific concepts; site elements; visual works; visual works by subject type; weather and related phenomena; weather-related phenomena; writing (processes); youth

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