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- Hagi-yaki tea bowl
- Hagi pottery.; Pottery, Japanese.
- Pottery bowl; 8 cm. high x 16 cm. in diameter. Hagi ware (Hagi-yaki) is a type of Japanese pottery most identifiable for its humble forms and use of translucent white glaze. It originated in the early 17th century with the introduction of potters...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Lacquerware elephant, Thailand, late 20th century
- Lacquer and lacquering--Thailand--Chiang Mai.; Lacquer and lacquering--Thailand.; Elephants in art.
- Lacquerware statue; 7 cm. high. Chiangmai is probably the area in Thailand that is best known for its long tradition of color fill engraved lacquer pieces and the gold-on-black form, otherwise known as gold-leaf lacquerware. These are the...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Miniature lali drum
- Drum ; Music ; Woodwork ; Islands of the Pacific.
- Painted wood ; 9 x 2.5 x 2'' ; 2 wood drum sticks (5.5'' long); This miniature of a canoe-shaped drum is carved from the vesi tree using stone tools called matauvatu and isivi. The two sticks used to beat the drum are called yavayava. ...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Gold-leaf lacquerware vessel, Thailand, mid-20th century.
- Lacquer and lacquering--Thailand--Chiang Mai.; Lacquer and lacquering--Thailand.
- Black and gold lacquerware; 5 cm. high. Chiangmai is probably the area in Thailand that is best known for its long tradition of color fill engraved lacquer pieces and the gold-on-black form, otherwise known as gold-leaf lacquerware. These are the...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Aztec calendar
- Aztec calendar.
- Resin replica; 15 cm. in diameter. The original sun stone, also called the Aztec calendar, is on display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. It weighs 25 tons and has a diameter of eleven feet. The Aztec calendar is the calendar...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Mayan calendar
- Maya calendar.
- Resin plaster replica; 27 cm. in diameter. The Maya calendar depicted here was called "the Haab", the Maya solar calendar of 365 days. It was divided into 18 months of 20 days each with a period of 5 days left over at the end of the year. This...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Lizard steel drum cutout
- Metal-work ; Art, Central American
- 5 x 8'' ; painted steel; Haitian artists are known for their flat metal sculptures (called cutouts) made from recycled steel oil drums. The colorful designs usually reflect daily life on Haiti. The fifty-five gallon steel oil drum is first burned...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Waklahun; (Mayan Number 16 glyph)
- Native Central American Art ; Pre-contact, -1500 Central American ; Art, Mexican
- 4.5 x 6 x 1'' Ceramic; Portrait variant of the Mayan number glyph for the number 16. Portrait varients were often used for the calendar count on Classic period stelae and monuments. Mayan numeration is base 20. The numerical glyphs can be seen as...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Waxaklahun; (Mayan Number 18 glyph)
- Native Central American Art ; Pre-contact, -1500 Central American ; Art, Mexican
- 4.5 x 6 x 1'' ; Ceramic; This glyph is a portrait variant of the Mayan number glyph for the number 18. It was commonly used for the calendar count on Classic period stelae and monuments. Several variations of glyphs for numbers were used by the...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Kalasi or water pitcher
- Art, Asian ; Metal-work
- 8'' tall x 2'' diameter ; brass; The best known Indian brassware comes from the states of Uttar Pradesh (Northern India; borders Nepal to the south) and Guajarat (Western India on the Arabian Sea; borders Pakistan to the south). This item may be a...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Dancing lizard
- Metal-work ; Art, Central American ; Art, Haitian.
- 12 x 15'' ; painted steel; Haitian artists are known for their flat metal sculptures (called cutouts) made from recycled steel oil drums. The colorful designs usually reflect the daily life on Haiti. The fifty-five gallon steel oil drum is first...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Hercules/Bacchus; circa 2nd century A.D.
- Hercules ; Bacchus.; Sculpture ; Art, Classical (Greek and Roman) ; Art ; 100 - 199 ; Ancient European - 300 B.C. ; Bacchus ; Hercules ; Art, Classical (Greek and Roman); ; Ancient Mediterranean Tour
- H: 8'' ; plaster; This shaft end of joined heads of divinities, called a double-herm, was used as a household monument. Hercules (the son of Zeus and Alcmene) and Bacchus (god of wine) were worshipped in Minturnae in Italy, where the original was...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Statue with earrings holding a spear and shield
- Art, Islands of the Pacific ; Woodwork ; Human figure in art ; Arms and Armor
- Wood painted black ; three parts: man: 4,5 x 2 x 1.5'' ; spear: 4.5'' ; shield: 1.75 x 1''; Sagada is one of the ten towns in the Cordillera Region of Northern Philippines. The locals of Sagada are called Igorots. Igorots include the 6...
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- Scroll; A gentleman can improve his cultivation if he lives in a room with an orchid for a long time
- Painting, Chinese ; Art, Chinese
- 18'' scroll ; 25'' x 18'' painting ; mounted on silk; This orchid painting represents one of the plants of a group often called the '' four gentlemen'' of Chinese painting. The ''four gentlemen'' are plum blossom, orchid, bamboo, and...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Typical Pesoc Cusco Andean dressed woman
- Costume ; Art, South American ; Post-contact, 1500- South American
- 10'' ; plastic and cloth; During the prehispanic times, men and women wore very simple dresses, mostly composed of cotton or camelid fiber tunics, called unku. Even the ruling classes wore unkus, though they were made of finer materials. When the...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Typical Pesoc Cusco Andean dressed man
- Costume ; Art, South American ; Post-contact, 1500- South American
- 10'' ; plastic and cloth; During the prehispanic times, men and women wore very simple dresses, mostly composed of cotton or camelid fiber tunics, called unku. Even the ruling classes wore unkus, though they were made of finer materials. When the...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Peteca; green and yellow toy with feathers on top
- Tupian.; Toys ; Art, Brazilian
- 5 x 3 x 3'' ; fabric and feathers; This is a hand shuttlecock used to play a game, which is also called Peteca. It is a game indigenous to Brazil, and reputed to be as old as the country itself. An early peteca was primitive, home-made, and...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Lele cup Kongo snuff bottle.
- Art, Kuba--Congo (Democratic Republic); Art, Kongo--Congo (Democratic Republic); Decoration and ornament--Congo (Democratic Republic); Containers--Congo (Democratic Republic); Snuff boxes and bottles--Congo (Democratic Republic); Pottery--Congo...
- 2 art originals :$bpottery, black ;$c13-15 cm. high in case 31 x 21 x 21 cm. +$e1 card. In the Kuba, Lele and Kongo societies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo decorative patterns are an important tradition. Intricate patterns are carved on...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Dan mask Pende mask ; Baule mask.
- Masks, Dan--Côte d'Ivoire.; Masks, Pende--Congo (Democratic Republic); Masks, Baule--Côte d'Ivoire.; Dan (African people)--Religion--Rituals.; Pende (African people)--Religion--Rituals.
- 3 masks :$bwood, col. ;$c20-38 cm. high in case 54 x 66 x 16 cm. +$e1 card. For the Dan of Côte d'Ivoire, masks are mythical bush spirits, owners of the land, who uphold the authority of the elders. The Dan people make sacrifices to these masks...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum
- Ancient Roman pot handle
- Amphoras--Rome.; Pottery, Roman.; Art. Classical--Rome.
- This unglazed, red terra-cotta pot handle (3" x 3" x 3") was found on a beach by the Red Sea in 1961. This shard is estimated to date circa 700BCE--250 CE. By studying the clay, and the way the handle was formed, this is presumed to be part of a...
- Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum