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Caryatid vessel (arugba Shango)

DMA Insight

Marcus Collection of Fertility Figures

In Focus

Ear ornament or pendant (mamuli)

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Violin-Shaped Idol

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Idol

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Idol

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Doll (akua'ba)

Cultures & Traditions

Blessings of the Bride in Traditional Indonesian Cultures

In Focus

Ifa divination tray (opon Ifa) and Ifa divination tapper (iro Ifa)

Artists & Designers

Akobi Ogun Fakeye (c. 1870-1946)

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Conical bowl

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Fertility Goddess

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Double tubular sacred textile (mawa')

In Focus

Henry Moore: A Modernist's "Primitivism"

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Isis and Horus

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Shango dance wand ("oshe" Shango)

Cultures & Traditions

Art to Aid Conception and Birth

In Focus

Pillar Figure

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Standing Mother Goddess

Cultures & Traditions

Shiva

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Funerary urn with cover

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Bracket with celestial attendant

Cultures & Traditions

Themes in Traditional Indonesian Arts

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Sarong

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All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins

In Focus

Headdress ornament with a human face

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Figure (nazeze-type of yanda)

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Marriage bowl

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Door lock (anuan)

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Divinity

Materials & Techniques

Tampan

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Seated figure

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Pillar figure

In Focus

Woman's ceremonial skirt (tapis), 1983.67

In Focus

An Mbala Maternity Figure

Cultures & Traditions

Traditional Arts in Timorese Cultures

In Focus

Seated male figure (1994.200.McD)

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Standing female figure (mbem)

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Deity figure

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Shrine figure of a deity (Baku-Mau)