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Title

Model No. 30183

Artist

Gordon Newton

Physical Description

A black rectangular base with gears on top, spray painted black. A red wooden pole is sticking out of the center of the base and is holding up a red base with additional gears and a bright red ball on top. There are also multiple rubber belts on the bottom and top areas.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1948

Object Creation Date

1984

Accession Number

2013/2.302

Medium and Support

wood, paint, rubber

relevance

rank 19.01903

Secondary Keywords

components

components and systems

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Title

Ogun Ax (àáké or edùn Ogun)

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria

Physical Description

Carved ax handle is comprised of a kneeling male figure with rounded knob on top of his head, into which narrow end of triangular iron ax blade is embedded.

Century

Mid-20th century

Object Creation Date

1925-1975

Accession Number

2006/2.73

Medium and Support

wood, iron

relevance

rank 18.30992

Secondary Keywords

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iron and iron alloy

materials

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Title

Iconography series: Saturn, mounted on a tiger

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School

Physical Description

Two figures, Shani and his tiger are depicted centrally in the image. The background is very simple with some grass tufts and a pond near the very bottom of the images.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1840

Accession Number

1987/1.248

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

relevance

rank 17.70031

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

associated concepts

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mammals

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Title

Nail figure (nkisi nkondi)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Vili Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Physical Description

Wood-carved, standing male figure 40 inches in height. Its shoulders and torso are impaled with iron blades, nails and fragments. The torso is long, arms at side are bent at elbow and hands rest on lower abdomen. The right wrist wears a bracelet with attachments. The legs are truncated, with twisted metal anklet on right foot. The face is naturalistic, the mouth slightly open, the nose long and narrow with slightly flared nostrils. Eyes are almost shaped, may have had inlay that is now gone. The top of the head shows a tiered, "layer cake like" coiffure. The figure has a long and deep crack down the entire length of its left side, from top of the head to the left ankle.

Century

Late 19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1850

Accession Number

2005/1.192

Medium and Support

wood, iron nails, blades and fragments, fiber cord

relevance

rank 14.72188

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Tea Time

Artist

Dewey Blocksma

Physical Description

A parade car, with two wheels on the front, holds a teapot shape structure which has a barbie head on top of the teapot, and an American flag sticking on the barbie doll's head.

Artist Life Dates

American, born 1943

Object Creation Date

2010

Accession Number

2011/2.62

Medium and Support

mixed media

relevance

rank 12.40735

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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containers

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containers for serving and consuming food

culinary containers

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