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Ear ornaments
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Gold alloy, Ono Niha people
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of John B. Elliott through the Mercer Trust 2000
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Silver dress pin with rosette motif
Silver dress pin with rosette motif
Clothing pin (fibula) with a rosette motif. This type of clothing pin is worn by Berber women in the Middle Atlas region. Besides being used to tie wrapping cloths the clothing pin...
Female Courtier On a Rampart Smoking a Hookah, While Watching a Flight of Birds
Female Courtier On a Rampart Smoking a Hookah, While Watching a Flight of Birds
Standing on a white marble rampart is female figure. She wears a red-orange dress decorated with gold dots and gold trim. Her hair is partially covered with an orange and gold scar...
Earspools depicting a procession of trumpeter monkeys
Earspools depicting a procession of trumpeter monkeys
Members of the elite classes in Precolumbian America wore ear ornaments as an important part of their dress. Their earlobes were pierced when they were very young and as they grew,...
MODERN SCULPTURE
MODERN SCULPTURE
Stone sculpture; sandstone head. Orange-yellow fine-grained sandstone. Short hair, no fringe, cut around the ears, lumpy appearance as if thick and curly; there is a groove running...
Bahram Gur hunts with Azada (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Bahram Gur hunts with Azada (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Bahram Gur, a son of Yazdigird III, took his slave girl, a harpist named Azada, on a hunt. As they rode together on his camel, Azada challenged Bahram to do the seemingly impossibl...
Head of a Goat
Head of a Goat
Late Hellenistic or Julio-Claudian Roman. Head of goat missing tip of head, tip of left ear, right ear and base of neck; scar at right side of lower jaw for projecting puntello whi...
Shallow Bowl with Tall Foot and Knobbed Lid
Shallow Bowl with Tall Foot and Knobbed Lid
Interior: in the center a whirl pattern in black bounded by a checker border between two stripes of applied purple. Around an animal zone, panther, goose, panther, goose, lion, ibe...