Male figure with strips of hide (Nkisi)


Male figure with strips of hide (Nkisi). Kongo, 19th century. Wood, hide, glass, mirror. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expeditions 1922, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 22.1455.
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September 14, 2018 – January 6, 2019
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Votive Giving Across Cultures
Cultural Histories of the Material World
2015


Chatham Square (1853-55)
Unknown
United States of America
Daguerreotype
3 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (8.9 x 12.2 cm)


The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005 (2005.100.173). Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY


From the exhibition:

Visualizing 19th-Century New York

Bell (Early 12th century)
China, Northern Song dynasty
Bronze


Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George Hopper Fitch B.A. 1932, 1958.82.

From the exhibition: Design by the Book: Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu

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