ONLINE GALLERY : : SPRING 2008                 

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Stone Matate with bird image -- Click for Larger View
Costa Rican Matate
Erik Farrow
This emphatic and haunting hand from the funerary traditions of the Bongo in Bahr-el-Ghazal in the south of Sudan would have been placed on a pile of rocks to mark the grave of a hunter. -- Click for Larger View
Bongo People Funerary Marker
Zena Kruzick
This door was used at an entrance of an Obi--a meeting room for important members of the Ibo people of Nigeria. Provenance: Doug Dawson -- Click for Larger View
Ibo Door
Joshua Dimondstein
Ethnographic groups in West Nepal employed masks in enigmatic tribal rituals. -- Click for Larger View
Himalayan Tribal Mask
Robert Brundage
A lively depiction of Mimihs dancing by the artist Mijau Mijau, the preeminent painter of Mimih subjects. -- Click for Larger View
Aboriginal Bark Painting
David Betz
This ceremonial rain hood from Papua New Guinea was deaccessioned from the Steyler Missionary Museum, Germany. -- Click for Larger View
Maprik Ceremonial Rain Hood
Andres Moraga
<i>Ivri</i> Figure from an old Paris collection -- Click for Larger View
Ijo Figure
Robert Dowling
Beaten by men and drawn on by women, bark cloths are used as swaddling clothes, babies’ blankets, head gear, birthing tunnels through which young boys are reborn during puberty rites, and most commonly as loin cloths (pongo, murumba) -- Click for Larger View
Mubti Pygmy People Bark Cloth
Cathy Cootner
This shield is published in "Shields of Melanesia" on page 83, by Barry Craig and Harry Beran. It was collected by Han Allies in Wogamush Village in 1972. It is in good condition featuring strong graphics, showing extensitve use. -- Click for Larger View
April River Shield
Mike Auliso
19th century war shield for the high ranking "Gbilija" warriors of the Azande people of D.R. Congo. -- Click for Larger View
Azande War Shield
Erik Farrow
This large and glorious piece of nearly petrified wood would have been an object of contemplation in a Chinese scholar
Scholar's Wood Fragment
Zena Kruzick
Bronze scorpions (Digpa Ratsa) were employed as protection against natural calamity in Central Tibet. Scorpions were painted on village dwellings to ritually appease local deities that control weather and natural phenomenon. This effectively demonstrates the integration of ancient animistic beliefs and Vajrayana Buddhism in early Tibet. -- Click for Larger View
Tibetan Amulet
Robert Brundage
A classic West Arnhem land bark painting of fish (baramundi) done in the x-ray style collected by Dr. Stuart Scougall on an expedition to Arnhem Land in the 1950
Aboriginal Bark Painting
David Betz
The culture of this woman
Woman's Shawl
Andres Moraga
Owl Vessel -- Click for Larger View
Colima Vessel
Robert Dowling
This mask was used to house the spirit of an ancestor thereby protecting the well-being of its people. -- Click for Larger View
Toma Face Mask
Joshua Dimondstein