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  • Collection: Ethnology

Album, Woodblock Prints

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Album bound in heavy brown paper with a wooden spine. The binding exhibits a star-motif.

The album holds 48 pages of woodblock prints. Most of the prints are attributed to one of the late great print masters of the Edo period (1603-1868), Utagawa…

Basket

Basket with lid. Manufactured by coiling technique using raffia threads.

The elements are a stiff core of one or more fibers and a softer strip for sewing. The spiral course of the foundation is conspicuous, but the core itself is entirely hidden…

Basket

Basket with pointed lid, black design on outside of basket.

Basket

Small twined basket with two handles. Smoke discoloration, tears, misshapen. Glassell collection. Inherited by family.

Belt

A leather belt with a geometric beadwork design.

Boat, Model

Small reed model boat depicting life-size ones utilized on Lake Titicaca.

Bowl

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Blackware bowl. Short, broad body with incurving rim, flat base. Exterior highly polished. Matte black design motif on upper third of body, consisting of four stepped triangles running diagonally from rim to nattor band above body midpoint.…

Bowl

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Light blue ceramic bowl with dark blue design. Exterior: two stylized dragon-like figures with legs, horns, mane, and forked tail. Two designs between dragons. Two pencil-thin lines around top, one around base, two lines on the foot. Interior: two…

Bowl

Porcelain bowl. Exterior: Brown slip, bottom designed with two circles containing five Chinese characters. Interior: Light blue; rim has a band with floral and geometric design done in matte finish (may be missing applied glaze decoration) in…