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January 12, 2011

Photo Archives Anthropology Gallery

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  • Jade desk screen, detail of two women playing flutes. China.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): John Bayalis (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Mask. Cedar wood. Shown in open position. Kwakiutl.  Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Mummy coffin. For the remains of a woman named Tent-athuman or Tinto. Made of larch or spruce tree. Egypt.  Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Pacific exhibit, Outrigger diorama. Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Stucco pattern block for mold, mouflon design, forepart of a ram above wings. Mouflon is a wild sheep native to the Near East. Kish, Iraq archaeology Sassanian [Sassanid] period.  Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): James Balodimas (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Bronze head of woman, Queen Mother or Divine Ruler, Oba. Opening for elephant tusk, and relief diamonds above each eye. Nigeria. Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Maori Meeting House.  Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Japanese silk tapestry. Festival scene at Temple in Nikko, Japan. Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Small chalice. In 1519, the Aztec ruler Montezuma reportedly served chocolate in great golden goblets to his envious Spanish guests.     Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Young woman in the process of grinding corn. Hopi. 1901.  Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Charles Carpenter (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Massett Woman weaving cedar root basket. 1897. Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Edward P Allen (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Several children, including Nancy Columbia, in the Eskimo exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904.  Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Charles Carpenter (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Geronimo. Front View, seated. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis Fair, 1904. Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Charles Carpenter (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Young girl in a hat standing by tent and pile of Hopewell disks from Mound 2. Ross County, Ohio. 1891.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Admin (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Nkisi Nkondi figure. Wood, nails, metal. Zaire, Africa.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Diane Alexander White (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Mica human hand effigy. Hopewell.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Thin flat copper fish effigy with dorsal and ventral fins. Mound 25 copper deposit. Hopewell. Identified as a small mouth buffalo fish (Ictiobis bubalus) or suckerfish.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Quetzalcoatl figurine terra cotta figure. Mexico.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Christian Madonna and child painting. Shaanxi, China.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Michael Tropea (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Book of the Dead as illustrated in the mortuary papyrus of a woman named Isty. Egypt.  Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): M. Anderson (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Germantown tapestry blanket with geometric elements that serve as a frame for a large two story colonial house design with a diamond border. Navajo.  74.5 x 54.25 inches     Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): John Weinstein (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Cast Silver figure of four armed deity Bodhisattva Chenrezi or Avalokitesvara or Avakijutesvara. Tibet.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): John Bayalis (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Wood stool, leopard figure. Cameroon, West Africa.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Diane Alexander White (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Hopewell copper jewelry on mannequin.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Ron Testa (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Nisenan woman collecting seeds with a seed beater and burden basket. Maidu. 1903.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): John W Hudson (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History

  • Bob Harris (Xa'Niyus) in Hamatsa dress. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis Fair, 1904.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): Charles Carpenter (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

  • Portrait of Confucius. China.Credit Information:

    Photographer(s): M. Anderson (c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0

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Jade desk screen, detail of two women playing flutes. China.Credit Information:

Photographer(s):John Bayalis(c) (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0