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- Title
- Commemorative Head of an Oba of the Benin kingdom
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Benin
- Physical Description
- Cast brass head of a human. An opening at the top would have supported a carved elephant tusk. The heads wears elaborate "winged" headgear.
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.260
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 13.30245
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- bronze (metal)
- heads
- heads (representations)
- king
- royalty
- shrines
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- African, Tanzania, Kagura
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.8
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 13.12997
- Primary Keywords
- canes
- head
- heads
- heads (representations)
- staff
- Title
- Head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.50
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 12.41425
- Primary Keywords
- heads
- heads (representations)
- terracottas
- Title
- Head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Ashanti
- Century
- 18th - 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.117
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 11.70488
- Primary Keywords
- asante
- figures (representations)
- heads
- heads (representations)
- terracottas
- Title
- Head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.51
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 11.22444
- Primary Keywords
- figures (representations)
- heads
- heads (representations)
- terracottas
- Title
- Head
- Artist
- Ronald Kitaj
- Physical Description
- The subject rests their head which is crooked in one direction. Their eyes are shut, brow furrowed, and mouth open to the surface that their head is resting upon.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1932
- Century
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.191
- Medium and Support
- black ink on wove paper
- relevance
- rank 9.23136
- Primary Keywords
- heads
- Title
- Head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.53
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 9.12759
- Primary Keywords
- heads
- terracottas
- Title
- Loom Heddle Pulley
- Artist
- African, Nigeria, Ibo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.127
- Medium and Support
- carved wood, twine and metal
- relevance
- rank 9.02612
- Primary Keywords
- head
- heads
- woodwork
- Title
- Indian Terracottas
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- A terracotta figure of a head wearing a headress.
- Object Creation Date
- n. d.
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.143
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 9.02612
- Primary Keywords
- ceramics
- heads
- terracottas
- Title
- Man Eating Fruit (?)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- A head of a man with an object in his mouth, possibly fruit? There is only the head present, no longer attached to a neck. The man has very dramatic slanted eyes and short hair. His mouth is open slightly to make room for the fruit that appears to have a box-like design on it.
- Century
- 5th century
- Object Creation Date
- 400-499
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.165
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 9.02612
- Primary Keywords
- fruit
- heads
- men
- Title
- Indian Terracottas
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- A terracotta figure of a head.
- Object Creation Date
- n. d.
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.144
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 9.02612
- Primary Keywords
- ceramics
- heads
- terracottas
- Title
- Head of Bodhisattva (mounted)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- The head of Bodhisattva looking straight ahead. She has an elaborate crown on the top of her head that has many swirls and dots.
- Century
- 5th century
- Object Creation Date
- 400-499
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.168
- Medium and Support
- Mathura sandstone
- relevance
- rank 9.02612
- Primary Keywords
- goddesses
- heads
- terracottas
- Title
- Studies of Two Female Heads
- Artist
- Stefano della Bella
- Physical Description
- Ink sketches depict a large female profile in the upper left corner facing right, a female head in the lower center, a smaller female head in the right center facing upwards, and a smaller female profile in the left center facing downwards. There is empty space in upper right quadrant.
- This sheet, cut from a larger sheet, features a study of a woman’s face in profile in the upper left. Her hair is bound. A nearly frontal view of another woman’s face is at the center bottom of the sheet. She looks down to her left and wears a jeweled headpiece or crown. Three other smaller and more lightly sketched heads also appear on the sheet, two along the left edge and one on the right.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1610-1664
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1630-1664
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.491
- Medium and Support
- brown ink on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 8.92689
- Primary Keywords
- drawings
- heads (representations)
- sketches
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba People Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Janus heads with elaborate headgear top a staff with a long, thin shaft and broader hourglass-shaped sections with a stylized human head in the middle of each one. The staff is covered with carved geometrical patterns of triangles, lozenges and lines, and ends in a metal-coiled tip at the bottom; it is heavy and has a shiny black patina.
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1940
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.75
- Medium and Support
- wood with metal
- relevance
- rank 8.92689
- Primary Keywords
- ceremonial staffs
- heads
- staff
- Title
- Black Head
- Artist
- Horst Antes
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1936
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1968?
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.263
- Medium and Support
- three-color lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.92689
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- head
- heads
- lithographs
- Title
- Poet's (Conrad Aiken) Garden, New York City
- Artist
- André Kertész
- Physical Description
- A decapitated sculpture of a human head sits peacefully atop a stone pile. In the front of the photo stretches a stem bursting with floral blooms while flora and fauna seep out rom the cracks of the rocks in the foreground.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1894-1985
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1950
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.16
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.92689
- Primary Keywords
- flora
- heads
- statues
- stone
- Title
- Stirring paddle with head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba or Songye Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.156
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 8.92689
- Primary Keywords
- head
- heads (representations)
- woodwork
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Senufo Peoples, Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- A stylized animal head, with an elongated open mouth and horizontally positioned, flat ears, sits atop a staff with decorative carvings along the shaft.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.25
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 8.82981
- Primary Keywords
- animals
- ceremonial staffs
- heads
- staff
- Title
- Head of an Old Man with a Long Beard
- Artist
- Gaetano Gandolfi
- Physical Description
- This work is vertically oriented with gray markings. The head of a bald old man with a long, wavy beard dominates the work. His head is slightly turned to our right, and he looks to the lower right corner.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1728 - 1781)
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 18th century
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.496
- Medium and Support
- charcoal, wash on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.82981
- Primary Keywords
- drawing (image-making)
- heads
- men
- Title
- Effigy Head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Idoma
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1940
- Accession Number
- 1982/2.61
- Medium and Support
- carved wood with paint
- relevance
- rank 8.82981
- Primary Keywords
- head
- heads (representations)
- idoma
- men
- Title
- Head of a Woman (Frauenkopf)
- Artist
- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
- Physical Description
- A monumentally stylized head of a woman. Her head is tilted slighty to the viewer's right. Her eyes, nose, and lips are large and almost mask-like. She appears to be wearing a hat of a modern style. Shading is executed with powerful parallel lines and cross-hatching. The year of the work's execution, 1916, appears in the lower right.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1884 - 1976
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1916
- Accession Number
- 1949/1.175
- Medium and Support
- wood cut on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.82981
- Primary Keywords
- expressionism
- expressionist
- heads
- women
- woodcuts
- Title
- Two Statues' Shadows
- Artist
- André Kertész
- Physical Description
- Square photograph with brown/amber/white color tones. Two glass objects sit in an abstract shape of a human figure. They are placed in the foreground with the heads tilted toward each other. On the right side there is a partial view of a table that is shown out of focus. Light is reflected on the rounded forms of the figures and their shadows are projected on a blank wall behind them. There is a large shadow profile of a man also projected onto the wall.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1894-1985
- Object Creation Date
- 1979
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.13
- Medium and Support
- Polaroid SX-70-Cibachrome on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.73482
- Primary Keywords
- glass
- heads
- photographs
- shadows
- statues
- torsos
- Title
- Head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Century
- late 19th - early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1890-1920
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.105
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 8.73482
- Primary Keywords
- head
- heads (representations)
- terracotta sculpture
- terracottas
- Title
- Female Antelope Headdress (Chi-Wara)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Bamana
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.137
- Medium and Support
- wood, leather
- relevance
- rank 8.73482
- Primary Keywords
- antelopes
- heads
- torsos
- wood (plant material)
- Title
- Virabhadra plaque
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 17th–18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.43
- Medium and Support
- brass (?)
- relevance
- rank 8.73482
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- goddess
- ram's heads
- sword
- Title
- Iridescent Glass Inkwell with purple-gray iridescent, gold ram head stopper
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- An iridescent glass inkwell with a gold lid. The base is purplish-gray while the lid has a ram's head engraved on it.
- Object Creation Date
- 1875-1975
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.274
- Medium and Support
- glass, metal
- relevance
- rank 8.64185
- Primary Keywords
- glass
- gold (metal)
- inkwell
- ram's heads
- Title
- Head of a Buddha, sheltered by Mucalinda (Lopburi style; fragment)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Thailand
- Century
- 13th century
- Object Creation Date
- 13th century
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.40
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 8.64185
- Primary Keywords
- buddha
- buddhism
- deity
- fragment
- heads
- icons
- snakes
- Title
- Ivory snuff bottle with ram heads and person
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1st half of 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.65
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.64185
- Primary Keywords
- grottoes
- ivory
- ram's heads
- snuff bottle
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mozambique, Yao
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.5
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 8.55085
- Primary Keywords
- canes
- head
- heads (representations)
- staff
- walking sticks
- yao
- Title
- Judith with the Head of Holofernes
- Artist
- Gaspare Traversi
- Physical Description
- The half-length figure of a woman looks directly out of the painting and holds the bearded head of a man on a platter in her hands. She wears a fine robe with large white sleeves and collar, a soft hat with a small white feather, and a bejeweled pin on her left shoulder. The face of an older woman with deeply wrinkled skin appears in the shadows behind her.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1722-1724 - circa 1770
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1760
- Accession Number
- 1996/2.16
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 8.55085
- Primary Keywords
- half figures
- heads
- oil paintings
- old testament
- platters
- servants
- Title
- Caravaggio's Medusa (Medusa Marinara), from The Peter Norton Family Christmas Project
- Artist
- Vik Muniz
- Physical Description
- Porcelain plate imprinted with the photographic image of a female head in pasta and marinara sauce.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1961
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1999
- Accession Number
- 1999/1.108
- Medium and Support
- photographic image on porcelain
- relevance
- rank 8.46173
- Primary Keywords
- appropriation
- food
- heads (representations)
- mythology (literary genre)
- plates (dishes)
- Title
- Head of a Child
- Artist
- Jacopo Bassano
- Physical Description
- This drawing depicts the head of a boy looking slightly downward to his right in three-quarters profile.
- Artist Life Dates
- (c. 1510 - c. 1592)
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 16th century
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.490
- Medium and Support
- charcoal on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.37446
- Primary Keywords
- boys
- children (people by age group)
- drawing (image-making)
- heads (representations)
- Title
- Comb with Head
- Artist
- African, Congo (Zaire), Songye
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1983
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.155
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 7.86323
- Primary Keywords
- combs
- combs (grooming tools)
- head
- heads (representations)
- woodwork
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yaka Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- A stylized human head with an elaborate coiffure, sitting atop a larger animal head with scarification marks below the eyes, tops a well-carved staff with angular handle and a zig-zag carved pattern below the handle. The eyes of both figures are set in shallow cavities and appear squinted or closed.
- Object Creation Date
- mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.19
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 7.86323
- Primary Keywords
- authority
- ceremonial staffs
- heads
- staff
- staffs (walking sticks)
- Title
- Pipe bowl in the form of a male head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.184
- Medium and Support
- carved wood
- relevance
- rank 7.79761
- Primary Keywords
- bowl
- bowls (vessels)
- head
- heads (representations)
- males
- men
- pipes (smoking equipment)
- smoking
- Title
- Head of a ram
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
- Physical Description
- This terracotta is modeled in the shape of a ram’s head. The snout is softly modeled by hand and his two horns form coils to either side of his head. A decorative band with punch-marked floral decoration on it divides the snout from the area of the head with the spiral horns. The horns are decorated with lines and encircle a donut shaped element in the center. A floral motif is between the two above the decorative band and other punch-marked floral forms decorate his snout at the top and at each cheek. His eyes are incised in a diamond pattern with a circular center and his nostrils are simple indentations.
- Century
- 1st century
- Object Creation Date
- 1st century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.283
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 7.75477
- Primary Keywords
- head
- ram
- ram's heads
- rams
- Title
- Head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.52
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 7.60844
- Primary Keywords
- figures (representations)
- heads (representations)
- terracottas
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Lunda Circle Lwena?
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.24
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 7.35486
- Primary Keywords
- bust
- busts
- figures
- figures (representations)
- heads (representations)
- staff
- staffs (walking sticks)
- woodwork
- Title
- Pipe
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.355
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 6.78676
- Primary Keywords
- crocodiles
- figures (representations)
- heads (representations)
- pipes (conduits)
- pipes (smoking equipment)
- smoking