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- Title
- Ceremonial Chewing Stick
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Fante Peoples Ghana
- Physical Description
- Wood stick with dark smooth patina; shows six registers or symbols carved into it, from top to bottom: closed fist; rifle; wisdom knot; powder keg; femake figure with hands covering breasts and genitals; paddle.
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1925
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.270
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Yanda Figure
- Artist
- African, Congo (Zaire), Zande
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1910
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.236
- Medium and Support
- wood, pigment, woven fiber, beads, metal
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Durga copper plate with mystic design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Kulu, Himachal Pradesh
- Physical Description
- A ten-armed figure sits with her legs tucked under her on a tiger with a long uplifted tail. The figure is incised onto the copper plate with a chisel. One set of arms are crossed across her chest, while all but six hands hold weapons. A crossed spear and trident form an X behind the figure. She has wide bracelets at each of her wrists and wears elaborate circular earrings and nose ring with a three partite crown. Two lines in devanagari script are above the figure.
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.145
- Medium and Support
- copper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Yanda Figure
- Artist
- African, Congo (Zaire), Zande
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1880
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.237
- Medium and Support
- wood, cloth, metal
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Durga Copper Plate
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Kulu, Himachal Pradesh
- Physical Description
- An eight armed goddess sits astride a tiger with uplifted tail. She carries a noose, punch dagger, shankha, and trident in her right hands and a bow, ring-like discus, arrow and shield in her left arms. She wears a long garland of either large rudraksa or heads around her heck along with other necklaces and pendants. She sits with legs pendant wearing a long skirt. Behind the figure a Om symbol with the end of the letter twirled around it twice and the word Shri written in Devanagari script. Below the figure a grid of letters forms a sacred diagram. The lines forming the grid all end in trident forms. Each square of the grid houses a different letter in nagari.
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.146
- Medium and Support
- copper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ritual Trough
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Dogon
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.252
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Shiva, in his form as ekamukhalinga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
- Physical Description
- Possibly used to cover a linga, a phallic representation of the god Shiva or representing a linga decorated with a face of Shiva, we find a stylized face on a tall, thick cylindrical neck. He is depicted with large, wide open eyes consisting of a double line above and below with a heavy eyebrows above them. A third eye is between them in a vertical direction. He has thick lips and wears a luxurious moustache. A decorated band fits tightly under his chin and may represent a decorated beard of necklaces. At the bottom of the band is a stylized linga on a base, looking like a cross on a line. His ears sport snake earrings and his hair is worn combed back from the forehead in wide matted bands.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.46
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Power Figure (nkisi kozo)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Vili Peoples, Congo Republic
- Physical Description
- Small wooden animal, possibly a dog or warthog, stands with medicinal pack and mirror embedded into its back; face has long sneering mouth and snout, bearing teeth. short pointed ears; tail curls at end. Two “guns” or pointy projections would have come out above the dog’s front legs, but they have broken off.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1825-1899
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.182
- Medium and Support
- wood, mirrors, resin, tukula powder, medicinal substances
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Plate Inscribed with Flying Figure of Hanuman Holding a Flag, Mace and Spear
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
- Physical Description
- Hanuman is depicted with a human body and a monkey head. The image is incised on the plate and his body is entirely textured with characters in the devanagari script. Often merely the letter ‘r’ designating the god Rama with whom he is associated. He is in a striding posture and there are a number of sections of text scattered around the image. At his feet is a human figure walking in the opposite direction. He holds a double flag consisting of two triangular shapes facing him in his left hand along with a thin club. One appears to emanating from his mouth? His right hand is lifted with an arrow above it and his tail curves behind him. There is also a small altar depicting the two feet of Rama in the area between his outstretched leg and the end of a scarf wrapped around his body.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.89
- Medium and Support
- copper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Whistle (nsiba)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Vili Peoples, Congo Republic
- Physical Description
- Two components make up this vertical whistle. The superstructure is a wooden carving of two birds that face each other, bellies touching, with a small round object between them, so that each is holding it in their beaks. The birds' talons clutch the base of the sculpture. The base has a hole in the center into which the antelope horn is pegged.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1925-1975
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.181
- Medium and Support
- wood, antelope horn
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Mukha-Linga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Physical Description
- This phallic representation of the god Shiva appears as a columnar head placed on a base with two rounded moldings on top of a series of square ones. His neck is fully cylindrical and the face is modeled on that cylinder. The eyes are wide open and a bow shaped eyebrow curves over them. He has a flared nose and luxuriant moustache over a narrow but full lips and a short ball like chin. A ‘U’ shaped element consisting of lines and a pearl motif probably represents his beard, perhaps held up in a tight net. His forehead is decorated with three raise lines that go straight across and his crown is basically flat over his hear decorated with a bunch of peak forms in the center with a finial surmounting the whole. His ears fan out almost like handles to a jar and are decorated with stylized arabesques. A five-headed snake hood rises behind the head and has a rib down its center and scale motives incised towards the bottom an ‘S’ shapes t denote the cobra ‘eyes’ to each side.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.52A
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Censer with Maltese crosses, birds, and columns
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Coptic, Egypt
- Physical Description
- The body of this cylindrical censer is decorated with eight columns spaced at regular intervals. The lid of the censer consists of an openwork dome divided into sections by eight vertical ribs that converge at its apex. An arched horizontal band intersects the midpoint of the ribs, and these eight junctures are marked with a projecting bird that holds a small bronze ball dangling from its beak. Two segments of the dome are decorated with Maltese crosses while another two feature curved plant forms. The apex is surmounted by a finial comprised of a globe topped by a Maltese cross on which a bird holding a piece of fruit perches.
- Century
- 6th-7th century
- Object Creation Date
- 500-699
- Accession Number
- 1960/2.4
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Mukha-Linga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Physical Description
- This phallic representation of the god Shiva appears as a columnar head placed on a base with two rounded moldings on top of a series of square ones. His neck is fully cylindrical and the face is modeled on that cylinder. The eyes are wide open and a bow shaped eyebrow curves over them. He has a flared nose and luxuriant moustache over a narrow but full lips and a short ball like chin. A ‘U’ shaped element consisting of lines and a pearl motif probably represents his beard, perhaps held up in a tight net. His forehead is decorated with three raise lines that go straight across and his crown is basically flat over his hear decorated with a bunch of peak forms in the center with a finial surmounting the whole. His ears fan out almost like handles to a jar and are decorated with stylized arabesques. A five-headed snake hood rises behind the head and has a rib down its center and scale motives incised towards the bottom an ‘S’ shapes t denote the cobra ‘eyes’ to each side.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.52B
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Cup
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Bushoong
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1890
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.207
- Medium and Support
- wood, copper staples, cowrie shells
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ikhoko Amulet Pendant
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Pende peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1930
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.197
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Bhairava (?), head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Physical Description
- Almost life size, this stylized face was probably placed upon a shaft and used as a religious standard at a temple. The face consists of almost a perfect circle with large ears to either side. His mouth is open showing tiny saw tooth like teeth with large canines at either end. His eyes are large and wide open with huge circular pupils and a heavy eyebrows and luxurious moustache. Horizontal lines on his forehead are signs of a follower of Shiva.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.103
- Medium and Support
- brass or copper alloy
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Knife
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Mangbetu
- Century
- late 19th - early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.233
- Medium and Support
- iron, ivory, leather sheath
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ikhoko Amulet Pendant
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Pende peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1880
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.198
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Esu-Elegbara Dance Staff (ogo Esu-Elegbara)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria
- Physical Description
- At the top of the staff, a male and female supplicant peer from a cascade of cowries, brass beads, iron fragments, and seeds. Some cowries are stained with indigo dye. The lower bodies of the figures are concealed by the shell strands above. Their elongated hairstyles extend the overall verticality of the piece. The figure’s faces appear to be identical.
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1975
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.26
- Medium and Support
- wood, leather, cowrie shells, brass, iron, seeds
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Oliphant (hunter's horn made from elephant tusk)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Mangbetu
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1860
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.235
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ikhoko Amulet Pendant
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Pende peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.199
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Conch trumpet, in an embossed silver mount, inlaid with lapis lazuli, turquoise and coral
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal
- Physical Description
- An elaborately decorated conch shell trumpet, with extensions and a side chamber made from silver, inlaid with other precious metals and semi-precious stones of turquoise, lapiz lazuli, and mountain coral.
- Century
- 9th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 800-1900
- Accession Number
- 1982/2.42A
- Medium and Support
- conch shell, silver, vermeil, lapis lazuli, and coral
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ceremonial Cup
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Suku
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.125
- Medium and Support
- carved wood
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Power Figure (nkisi nduda)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yombe Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Small wooden figure with naturalistic human face engulfed in layers of multi-media attachments including animal hides, medicine packs, and a turban bound in feathers. Figure holds the tip of a curved piece of wood in its mouth, the other end of which terminates in its clutched right hand. A round mirrior is embdedded in the figure's "belly." The hides and fibers creating the “skirt” are intact, making it unique.
- Century
- Late 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.191
- Medium and Support
- wood, mirror, glass, hide, fiber, feathers, resin, pigment
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Kadampa Stupa
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal
- Physical Description
- A miniature stupa, cast of bronze in several parts, consisting of a bell-shaped base; an inverted cone-shaped tower, capped by an "umbrella" with pendant, fringe-like decoration, inlaid with semi-percious stone, surmounted by a lotus bud. Atop the whole structure is a half-moon and sun disk motif, supported by intertwined ribbons and culminating in another lotus bud.
- Century
- 13th century
- Object Creation Date
- 13th century
- Accession Number
- 2003/1.386
- Medium and Support
- bronze with inlaid turquoise and coral
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Standing Female Figure as a Cup
- Artist
- African, Congo (Zaire), Wongo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.211
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 0.00000