Arunta Tobacco Pipe

Egyptian Slave Candlesticks (ca. 1802)
Probably made by Alexis Decaix (ca. 1753-1811)
English Regency
Patinated bronze, ormolu, marble
11½ in. (29 cm).

Private collection

From the exhibition:

Thomas Hope: Regency Designer

Arunta Tobacco Pipe (Late 19th Century)
Arunta culture, Central Australia, Northern Territory, Australia
Wood, pigment; metal, plant fiber, soot

Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, ST/4179

From the exhibition:

Frontier Shores: Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture of Identity in Oceania

Bag fragment (100 BC–AD 700)
Nasca Valley, Peru
Camelid fiber; weft-faced plain weave, slit tapestry weft patterning, needlework edges
5 7/8 x 5 1/2 in. (15 x 14 cm)

Collected by Ronald Olson during the Myron Granger Expedition, accessioned 1930, American Museum of Natural History 41.0/5415

From the exhibition:

Carrying Coca: 1,500 Years of AndeanChuspas