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Coffin in the shape of an eagle

This wooden coffin in the form of eagle with painted gold fe…
Inca painted wooden beaker with feline and rainbow

In Andean culture powerful cats, especially the lowland jagu…
Wooden gorget (rei miro)

This type of crescent-shaped breast ornament, or gorget, was…
Wooden hornbill figure (kenyalang)

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some people…
War shield from Papua New Guinea

The design on this shield reflects important objects connect…
Ancestor figure from Solomon Islands

This carving represents a male ancestor, who would have been…
Maori treasure box (papahou)

This is a Māori treasure box known as a papahou, a type…
Inca wooden drinking vessel

When tilted upward, the beer passes through a hidden, interi…
Inca beaker with dancing scene

The Ch’unchus were held to be a ferocious tribe living in lo…
Model from the tomb of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II

This model showing the baking process was placed in the tomb…
Painted wooden model boat

Boats were the commonest type of funerary models placed in t…
Painted wooden model of a granary

In ancient Egypt, many junior officials, who were not able t…
Painted wooden shabti box of Nesytanebettawy

Throughout the New Kingdom (about 1550-1070 BC) the number o…
Painted wooden statue of an official

Figures such as this were placed in the tomb as a substitute…
Winnowing fan

Wall scenes from tombs in ancient Egypt show the four stages…
Wooden coffin of a child

This small coffin is very well made, despite its simple form…
Wooden mallet

The wooden mallet combined the functions of the modern malle…
Wooden model of servants preparing food

Small wooden models of servants were often placed in tombs f…
Wooden peg shabti

Shabti figures were placed in Egyptian tombs from the late M…
Canoe model

Northern British Columbia and South-east Alaska are characte…
Carved wooden figure (ivwri)

This sculpture combines attributes of bird, wild animal and …
Carved wooden figure (okega)

These horned carvings usually depict one or more figures, of…
Carving of a European official with two policemen

This wooden carving shows a European official mounted on a h…
Carving of Queen Victoria

This figure of Queen Victoria was made by a Yoruba carver. S…
Drum with European figure

The base of this drum is carved in the form of a seated Euro…
Hunting helmet

The helmet is made of painted bentwood, decorated with sea-l…
Malangan figure

This figure was made for malangan , a cycle of rituals of th…
Mancala (wari) board

Mancala is an ancient game still played across Africa, Asia,…
Navigation chart (mattang)

The Republic of the Marshall Islands, consisting of more tha…
Shaman's rattle in the form of an oystercatcher

The rattle is carved of wood, in the form of an oystercatche…
Steps with figure

The Admiralty Islands are politically part of Papua New Guin…
Tala-wipiki, Lightning katsina doll

Katsina are benevolent spirits, who live among the Hopi duri…
Wooden carving of a spirit figure (blolo bian)

This carving of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast is of a …
Wooden male and female figures

This pair of figures, one male and one female, are carved in…
Gold and coloured lacquer sake pourer in the form of a boy attendant

The figure forms a bottle which can be filled by removing th…
Lacquer inro

This inrō is made of black lacquer with a coloured shel…
Mask of a shishi

The shishi (leonine creature) mask was used in the theatre a…
No mask known as hannya

In the Nō drama, the hannya is a mask worn by the chara…
Octagonal nest of boxes for food

This nest of boxes is a good example of how Chinese techniqu…
Pair of wooden bodhisattvas

Among Buddhist figures, bodhisattvas are enlightened beings …
Panel from a shrine or temple

This wooden openwork panel would have been used as part of t…
Red lacquer cup stand

The Ryūkyū Islands (now known as Okinawa prefectur…
Sculpture of the Buddha

This figure of the Buddha shows him in a popular Burmese for…
Sword

This sword was excavated together with rich gilt copper hors…
Wood and ivory chest

From the sixteenth century Europeans began to visit the coun…
Wood and ivory netsuke, palaces in a clam, carved by Kagetoshi

The illusion of palaces in the bubbles of the clam's breath …
Wooden netsuke, a Dutchman and a cockerel

The Dutch were the only Westerners allowed permanent residen…
Wooden netsuke: a wasps' nest

Subjects for netsuke became more and more diverse as the Edo…
Wooden netsuke by Hojitsu

Netsuke subjects are often taken from the natural world. Thi…
Wooden shishi mask

This rare early surviving example of a lion mask is from the…
Kolam dancer's mask

Kolam is a dance drama of rural Sri Lanka. Just like several…
Wooden figure of a tree god

This figure represents 'a forest or land spirit', and was co…
Wooden henta board

As in other parts of the Indian Ocean, many people in the Ni…
Hans Sloane's specimen tray

This drawer was once part of the materia medica - a sort of …
Wooden table from a tomb

During the first half of the second millennium BC Canaanite …
Bronze flesh-hook

This hooked instrument was found by turf cutters in a bog at…
A wooden writing-tablet

The exterior of this tablet has been branded with a circular…
Wooden equestrian figure

The African empires of Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Hausa, Kanem-Bo…
War shield from the Trobriand Islands

This shield, from the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea,…
Bowman's shield from Papua New Guinea

This shield from the Maiva area in Papua New Guinea would ha…
War shield from West Papua

This shield is from the South Asmat region of West Papua. Th…
Shield decorated with parrot feathers

This shield is thin and extremely light. It would allow a wa…
Arched wooden harp

Harps were often shown in banquet scenes, decorating the wal…
Archery case with painted scenes

This archery case has scenes of hunting on its exterior and …
Coffin for a mummified cat

Two main species of cats are known from ancient Egypt, the s…
Coffin of Cleopatra

This coffin is one of a group belonging to three generations…
Figure of a man with a hoe

The tomb owners of the Middle Kingdom (about 2040-1750 BC) w…
Folding wooden headrest

This folding headrest is modelled on the folding stools that…

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