Sitalmata (the Smallpox Goddess), and Stone Lingams Being Worshipped, Calcutta

The Iberian oppidum of Plaza de Armas in Puente Tablas is located 7 km outside of Jaén, next to the regional road J-V-312, Jaén-Torrequebradilla, in the eastern countryside and at ...

"362-22" "Two Bears Band, Fort Rice.″Yanktonai pipe bag; wool, glass, porcupine quills; l. 43.5/73 cm., w. 16.5 cm.; ca. 1860s.″Documentation: \Two Bears band, Fort Rice.‖ Purchase...

Inner chest of anonymous lady ; Painted on stucco (plaster) ; Third Intermediate Period, 21st dynasty (c. 1069-945 BCE) ; Second cachet of Deir el-Bahari (Bab el-Gasous); The inscr...

Photograph of Sir William Peel's statue in Eden Gardens from 'Views of Calcutta and Barrakpore was taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s. Sir William Peel (1824-1858) was a son of Si...

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...

Lithograph of the Pagoda at Eden Gardens in Calcutta by Vincent Robert Alfred Brooks (1814-85) one of 'Eight views of Calcutta' published in London c.1870. Eden Gardens are situate...

Watercolour of the Salt Water Lake east of Calcutta by Thomas Prinsep (1800-1830) c.1827-8. Inscribed on the album page, 'Salt Water Lake. c.1827-8, Hollowed date trees as canoes, ...