DMA Insight

A Gift of Ancient Art from Mexico

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Bottle with lid

In Focus

A Bamana terracotta vessel

Materials & Techniques

Akan Brass Casting

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Lokapala and burial practices in Tang dynasty China

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Ceremonial vessel

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Water storage vessel (jidaga)

Artists & Designers

Fischli/Weiss (1979-2012)

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Scarabronze vase

In Focus

Lokapala and Materials

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Bowl: animal figure

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Single-spout strap-handle vessel: feline

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Sun God (Helios)

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Double-spout strap-handle vessel: double-headed serpent deity

Cultures & Traditions

Salinar

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Beer-drinking vessel

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Vessel (itinate)

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Double-spout strap-handle vessel depicting a falcon

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Stirrup-spout vessel

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Stirrup-spout bottle: portrait head

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Effigy jar: figure holding sling

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Single-spout-and-bridge bottle: wounded warrior

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Stirrup-spout bottle: pepino fruits

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Head fragment

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Jar with handles

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Quero (qero, kero) with geometric design

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Bowl: four faces

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Spout-and-bridge bottle: monkey figure

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Seated hunchback holding mirror

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Head fragment

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Jar

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Stirrup-spout vessel

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Jar with corn motif

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Bowl: hummingbirds

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Flared bowl with supernatural heads

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Keno trailed bottle: incised interlocking spirals

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Figurine bust fragment

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Trumpet

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Spout-and-bridge bottle: bird form

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Santa Cruz red-on-buff jar: zig-zag pattern