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Canopy with Phoenixes and Flowers
Folio from a Mu’nis al-ahrar fi daqa’iq al-ash’ar (The Free Man’s Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi  (active 1340s)
LOR MASK Rawal PeopleTolai Region, Gazelle PeninsulaNew Britainmid 20th centurywood, pigments, vegetal fiber, feathers
The blue-skinned god Krishna is shown dressed in a patterned robe and bedecked with jewels and garlands, standing before a cloth of white floral material. Originally from Nathdwar Temple, Rajasthan (Late 19th century)
STONE TABLETS Southern AndesPre-Inca900-1400 adstone, mineral pigments
Amitabha Triad in the Form of Sacred Sanskrit Syllables (13th century)
DANCE MASK Yup’ikKuskokwim River, Alaskaca. 1890wood, feathers, hidevegetal fibers, black,white, blue/greenand red ochre pigments
KILLER WHALE DAGGER TlingitAttributed to Saayina.aatSoutheast Alaskaca. 1750–80steel, cloth
ARTICULATED SALMON Tsimshian (?), Northern British Columbialate 19th centurywood, pigments, cotton string
EAGLET MASK TlingitSoutheast Alaskaca. 1840wood, pigments, human hair, hide
MODEL TOTEM POLE Tahaygen, Charles Edenshaw (b. 1839 d. 1924),Haida, Queen Charlotte Islands, BCearly 20th centuryargillite
RAVEN DISH NishgaNorthern British Columbiaca. 1860–80wood, pigments
MODEL TOTEM POLE Kwakwaka’wakwKingcome Inlet, BCca. 1880wood, pigments
HEADDRESS FINIAL Tlingit, Southeast Alaskaca. 1840–1860wood, abalone shell, pigment, hair