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1. Altar w/ buddha

Museum number:
9-5682
Object class:
Altars (religious fixtures) and Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
1909

2. Axe

Museum number:
5-16342
Culture or time period:
Tsogo
Object class:
Axes (tools) and Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Dimensions:
width 6.5 centimeters, height 24.5 centimeters, and length 35.7 centimeters
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Collection date:
1967

3. Beads

Museum number:
6-16373
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects) and Carvings (visual works)
Dimensions:
length 40 millimeters and 20 millimeters
Collector:
George Andrew Reisner
Collection place:
Uncertain tomb and cemetery, Naga-ed-Der, Upper Egypt

4. Beads

Museum number:
6-15967
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects) and Carvings (visual works)
Collector:
George Andrew Reisner
Collection place:
Uncertain tomb and cemetery, Naga-ed-Der, Upper Egypt

5. Box

Museum number:
7-7422
Object class:
Boxes (containers) and Carvings (visual works)
Collector:
Albert C. Hooper
Collection place:
Europe

6. Carving

Museum number:
9-13012
Culture or time period:
Karen
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:
height 46.5 centimeters
Collector:
Grandparents of John O. Stevens
Collection place:
Myanmar (Burma)
Collection date:
1900

7. Carving

Museum number:
9-22473
Culture or time period:
Chukchi
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Dimensions:
stand— length 2.5 centimeters, figure— height 13.5 centimeters, stand— height 24.6 centimeters, figure— length 4 centimeters, figure— width 9.5 centimeters, stand— width 7 centimeters, and harpoon— length 5.9 centimeters
Collector:
Valene Smith McIntyre
Collection place:
Kamchatka Peninsula, Siberia, Russia

8. Carving fork

Museum number:
7-1194
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Production date:
1703
Collector:
Axel O. Lindstrom
Collection date:
1902

9. Ere ibeji figure

Museum number:
5-15918
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Object class:
Carvings (visual works) and Ere ibeji
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:
height 25 centimeters
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
1965

10. Esraj and bow

Museum number:
9-11932a,b
Culture or time period:
Bengali people
Object class:
Carvings (visual works) and Esrajs
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Collector:
H. M. Lissauer
Collection place:
Bengal (historical region)