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	Browsing item(s) in Monticello Oral Histories\nReplicas and Objects of the Giertz Education Center, Krannert Art Museum\nWilliam R. Thompson Digital Collection -- Tuskegee Airmen\nHistoric Champaign County -- Neighborhoods and Homes\nWatseka Public Library\n results 21-40 of 444 item(s)  page 2 of 23 : ( <<  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  >> ) :: previous : next select all : clear all : add to favorites   Image: Title: Subject: Description: 21. Aztec calendar stone Pre-contact, -1500 Central American ; Native Central American Art 4'' colored circle window press-on on 5 x 7'' card; The face of the bloody Sun God, Tonatiuh, is shown at the center. On both sides are claws clutching human hearts. The face is surrounded by reliefs representing... 22. Balinese temple hanging Mural painting and decoration ; Art, Islands of the Pacific ; Art and religion 16' 9'' ; painted cloth; Little in known about the stories included in this hanging, which was brought out and hung during a temple ceremony. It is known that the lighter, brown-skinned people were the... 23. Bamboo hanging scroll Art, Chinese 4' x 15'' ; paper and silk on plastic cord; Traditional Chinese painting can be divided into three categories: landscapes, figures, and birds-and-flowers. Landscapes and bird-and-flower paintings demonstrate... 24. Baroque angel head Art ; 1700 - 1799 ; Art, American ; Sculpture ; 1 replica ; 5 x 7'' ; oval ; plaster, chipped; This angel, the closest link between the provincial baroque style of stonecutting in New England and its European prototypes, closely resembles English gravestones... 25. Basket Embera baskets ; Waunana baskets ; Baskets--Panama ; Basket making--Panama ; Native Central American Art ; Post-contact, 1500- Central American ; Art, Central American Palm fibers ; 3.5 x 3''; Women of the Wounaan and Ember tribes make elegant baskets from the fibers of the natural plant and chunga palm, which grow in the Darien rain forest of Panama.The fibers of the... 26. Basket Baskets--Laos ; Basket making ; Art, Asian 7'' round with handle; People in Laos, a tiny country on the Indochona Peninsula, use larger baskets like this one to carry water. Natural Resin - a tree sap product - produces a water-tight finish. 27. Basket made of quinet Baskets--Philippines; Basket making--Philippines ; Art, Islands of the Pacific 6 x 18 x 14'' ; natural fibers; This basket is made of quinet, the husk from the flower of coconut palm tree. The coconut tree grows in large numbers on large plantations, and can grow up to 30-35 meters... 28. Basket with lid, decorated with cowrie shells Baskets--Africa ; Basket making--Africa ; Cowries ; Art, African ; Africa, West. 4'' round x 3'' tall ; basket with lid ; natural fibers and shells; This is a coiled basket (as opposed to woven) decorated with cowrie shells. It is not known from what materials this basket is constructed.... 29. Batik wallhanging; 3 giraffes by John R; Three giraffes by John R Batik ; Textile fabrics--Asia ; Art, Indonesian. 40 x 50 cm ; dye and cotton cloth; Originating in India as far back as 2000 years, the art of batik (wax writing) is a way of decorating cloth by covering part of it with a coat of wax and then dyeing... 30. Bayan, India Bayan--India.; Tabla. This drum (20 cm. high), a bayan, is the larger of the two-drum set that comprises the tabla, an Indian percussion instrument used in classical, popular and religious music of the Indian subcontinent.... 31. Beaded bracelet Jewelry ; Beadwork ; Art, African ; Africa, South. 3'' circumference ; leather core with colored beads; This bracelet is created using a string of beads, which is then wrapped around a core material. It is most likely made for the tourist market since... 32. Beaded gourd bowl Handicraft ; Folk art ; Native Central American Art ; Art, Mexican 3'' diameter gourd with beads ; inlayed in bee's wax; The folk art of the Huichol cultures (wee-choi) of Mexico can be described as nothing short of vibrant, beautiful, and striking. Designs expressed... 33. Beaded mat Decorative arts ; Art, African ; Africa, South. 5.5'' circular mat ; thread and beads; This mat uses colored beads to create a lacy flower design. 34. Beaded necklace with beaded doll charm Beadwork ; Handicraft ; Native North American Art Thread ; colored beads ; 22'' necklace with 1.5'' charm; This necklace is made of predominately white beads, with alternating red beads in the middle of a triple row of beads. The technique used to create... 35. Beaver effigy bowl; Original: Mississippi period, cc 1200 A.D. Pottery ; Native North American Art ; Pre-contact, -1500 North American Ceramic ; 7.5 x 4.4 x 3.5''; The original is a ceramic vessel made of clay with crushed burned mussel shell mixed in as a tempering agent. It was formed by the coil process, the effigy head formed separately... 36. Beverage glass Glass ; Art, American ; Art ; 1600 - 1699 7.5 x 4.25'' ; green glass; This is a reproduction of an artifact found at Jamestown, VA and dating from the last quarter of the 17th century. This piece was hand-blown at Jamestown, only a few yards from... 37. Bird Sculpture ; Art, African ; Africa, South. 18 x 4.5'' ; serpentine stone; Mr. Manuhwa is one of the first generation of Shona stone sculpturers to benefit from the workshop school at the Zimbabwe National Gallery and Vukutu. Vukutu was a rural... 38. Birdman tablet; 1310 Art, Illinois ; Native North American Art ; Post-contact, 1500- North American 2.5 x 3.5'' ; ceramic; Cahokias Birdman symbol was found engraved on a four-inch sandstone tablet unEArthed in 1971 in a lobe on the ease side of Monks Mound. Carbon dating of charcoal found at the base... 39. Birger figurine, 1100 Art, Illinois ; Art ; 1300 - 1399 ; Native North American Art ; Post-contact, 1500- North American 4 3/4'' tall ; ceramic; The birger is a figurine of a woman with a hoe, cultivating the back of a cat-faced serpent, a symbol of the Earth. The serpent's tail splits into two cushaw (winter squash) vines... 40. Black, brown and yellow Navajo rug Navajo rugs. Black, brown and yellow textile; 62 x 36 cm. select all : clear all : add to favorites results 21-40 of 444 item(s)  page 2 of 23 : ( <<  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  >> ) :: previous : next
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