Ritual Basin

Pipe bag; Lakota; ca. 1870-1880 \nHide, glass beads, porcupine quills, pigments; l. 40 cm. (incl. fringe); w. 13 cm.\nRMV 3158-9; purchased from art dealer Leendert Van Lier, Amste...

Tobacco, smoking, ritual, pipes, tobacco bags Tobacco was a stimulant used by the indigenous people in large parts of North, Central and South America as a sedative, medicine again...

Like the other two still lifes by Kalf in the Collection, this is a mature work executed during his Amsterdam period. It falls within the type known as a Pronkstilleven. Using a ve...

1916.9.289 Name and identification of character Mask used as an icon. The icon depicts a demon called kalu yaka (Sin.), also called kalu kumaraya (Sin.). Context The icon, in the...

Tara is chief among the best known ‘royal’ sites of Ireland, including Dún Ailinne in Leinster, Crúachain in Connacht and Emain Macha in Ulster. It is at once a landmark and a vant...

Tara is chief among the best known ‘royal’ sites of Ireland, including Dún Ailinne in Leinster, Crúachain in Connacht and Emain Macha in Ulster. It is at once a landmark and a vant...

Tara is chief among the best known ‘royal’ sites of Ireland, including Dún Ailinne in Leinster, Crúachain in Connacht and Emain Macha in Ulster. It is at once a landmark and a vant...

Wooden sculpture in the form of a crocodile painted with white and red color. Collected some time during the period 1913-14.Perhaps it is a totem animal. In the Sepik region, croco...