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Dome of Rock
Culture:Islamic
Jerusalem
687-692 |
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Sulayman, Ewer in the form of a bird
Culture:Islamic
Medium: Bronze
796 |
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Muqarnas Dome, Hall of Two Sisters
Palace of the Lions
Alhambra, Granada, Spain
Red Castle
Culture:Islamic
Medium: Stacco
1354-1391 |
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Mihrab from the Madrasa Imami
Has 99 ways to write Allija and the 5 pilliars of the koran
Isfahan, Iran, Ca.
Culture:Islamic
Medium: Mosaiac Tile
1354 |
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Maqsud of Kashan
Carpet from the funerary mosque of Shaykh Safi al-Din
Ardabil, Iran,
Culture:Islamic
Medium: Woven material
1540 |
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Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc
Bloodletting, Ritual
Lintel 24 temple 23, Yaxchilan, Mexico,
Culture:Maya
Medium:Stone
ca.725 CE |
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Colossal Head
Ruler
Culture:Olmec
La Venta,Mexico
Medium:Basalt
900-400 BCE. |
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Drinker
(Seated figure with raised arms)
Ritual
Culture:Mesoameria
Colima, Mexico
Medium:Clay with slip
ca. 200 BCE -500 CE |
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Vessel in shape of a portrait head
Ancestor Worship
Culture:Moche
Northern coast of Peru
Medium:
5th to 6th Century CE |
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Serpent Mound
Memorial (Power of the Serpent)
Culture:Mississippian
Ohio
Medium:Earth
ca. 1070 CE |
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Cliff Palace
Ancestral Puebloan
Culture:Pueloan
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Medium:
ca. 1150-1300 CE |
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Machu Picchu
See the stars, Ancestoral
Inka, Peru
Medium:Stone
15th Century |
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Mictlantecuhtli and Quetzalcoatl
From the Borgia Codex
Culture:Mixteca-Puebla
possibly from Tlaxcala, Mexcio
Medium:
ca. 1400-1500 |
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Coatlicue {Coat-a-que}
(She of the Serpent Skirt) Culture:Aztec
Tenochtitlan,
Mexcio City, Mexcio
ca. 1487-1520.
Medium:Andesite. |
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Maria Montoya Martinez Jar
Culture:San IIdefonso Pueblo,
New Mexico
Medium:Blackware
ca. 1939 |
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Eagle transformation mask
Kwakiutl,Albert
Culture:kwakey u tal
Bay, Canada
Medium:Wood, feathers and String
Late 19th Century |
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King, from Ita Yemoo
Head bigger to represent power
Culture:Ife,
Nigeria
Medium:
11th to 12th Century |
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Altar to the Hand and Arm
Ancestor Worship
Culture: ikegobo
Benin, Nigeria
Medium:Bronze
17th to 18th Century |
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Master of The Symbolic Execution
saltcellar,
Culture:Sapi-Portuguese
Sierra Leone
Medium:Ivory
15th to 16th Century |
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Nail figure
All about Ritual
Culture:Kongo
Shiloango River Area
Democratic Repubic of Congo
Medium:Wood, nails, blades, medicinal materials and cowrie shellca.
1875-1900 |
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Seated Couple
Culture:Dogon
Mali
Medium:Wood
ca. 1800-1850 |
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Osei Bonsu
Akua'ba (Akua's child)
Asante, Ghana
Medium:Wood
ca. 1935 |
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"Beautiful Lady" dance mask
Culture:Senufo,
Ivory Coast
Medium:
Late 20th century |
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Abelam yam mask
Yam used as money
Culture:Maprik district
Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
Medium:Painted Cane |
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Canoe prow and splashboard
Culture:Trobriand Islands
Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
Medium:
19th to 20th Centuries |
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Row of Moai
Ancestors, watch over islands
Cutlure:Rapa Nui
(Easter Island), Polynesia
Medium:Stone
10th to 12th centuries |
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