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A black, red, green, and white wooden mask depicting the face of Bakwas, looking right.

Bakwas mask

Red cedar, paint, string

1985

William P. George (Kwakwaka’wakw, fl. 1950s - 1980s)

British Columbia, Canada

Object ID 98.1085

 

 

A white ceramic sherd with blue decorations and Chinese characters.

Bowl rim sherd

Porcelain

Unidentified [Chinese] creator

Stanford family's Palo Alto mansion site, California

Object ID 14.046.001

 

A metal betel nut cutter in the shape of a horse.

Horse betel cutter

Brass

19th - 20th century

Unidentified Southeast Asian creator

Likely Tamil Nadu, India

Object ID 2024.1.14

A large, yellow-brown flaked axehead.

Handaxe

Flint

Neolithic (3900 - 1700 BCE)

Unidentified creator

Denmark

Object ID 5242

A ceramic figurine depicting a yellow diablito riding on the back of a grey helicopter.

Figurine of a diablito on a helicopter

Ceramic, paint

ca. 1960 - 1985

Unidentified Purépecha creator(s)

Ocumicho, Michoacán, México

Object ID 2022.2.17

Brown and white khipu mounted on natural-colored muslin.

Khipu

Camelid fiber, vegetal fiber

Prehistoric

Unidentified Andean creator(s)

Peru

Object ID 80.1012

Metal figure of the goddess Hathor that has turned mostly green.

Fragment of a sistrum rattle depicting the goddess Hathor

Bronze

Dynastic (3050 - 332 BCE)

Unidentified Pharaonic Egyptian creator

Egypt

Object ID 66.293

 

https://stanford.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/D8753969-D354-48EC-ABA1-413223828470

Acheulean handaxe

Quartzite

Lower Paleolithic (3 million - 300,000 years ago)

Unidentified Hominid creator

Poondi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Object ID 20021

Brown and white ceramic footbath, reconstructed.

Footbath with transferware patterns

Ceramic

ca. 1875 - 1950

Unidentified creator(s)

Likely United Kingdom

Object ID 14.S250.001

A ceramic storyteller figure depicting a seated man with eyes closed and open mouth. Small children crawl all over him.

Storyteller figure

Ceramic

1979

Helen Cordero (Cochiti Pueblo)

Cochiti, New Mexico

Object ID 2022.6.7

A white-and-purple striped huipil (top) with red collar and multicolored embroidered figures all over the top third of the garment.

Huipil

Cotton

ca. 1900 - 1960

Unidentified creator

Guatemala

Object ID 82.1035

A large ceremonial axe with woven plant fiber back and flared slate blade.

Di Kurugu (Ceremonial axe)

Stone, wood, plant fiber

ca. late 19th - early 20th century

Unidentified Papuan creator

Papua New Guinea

Object ID I.43A

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