Courtesy of Museum Volkenkunde.
Fragment of sarcophagi representing Pèn Lih, a being believed to be the lightning spirit, as well as one that guided the souls of the dead into the afterlife (psychopomp). Bahau or Modang people. 18th - mid-19th c. © 2019 FCM/MUSEC, Lugano. Brignoni Collection, Inv. As.Ins.4.034.
Detail of sacred carving (jaraik), openwork ornament. Uma decoration resembling the jaraik from neighboring Maileppet, but purchased with a broken midsection. Wood, rattan, mother-of-pearl, red and black pigments, glass beads, skull (bokkoi, Macaca nemestrina pagenesis), 75 x 120 cm, ca. 1910. Collected by Paul Wirz, 1926. Katoerei, East Siberut. Museum der Kulturen Basel, llc 2683.
Shrine Figure | Tavu | Maluku
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands
An Atoni man clutching two ceremonial spoons. Central Timor, 1918.
Drawing by W. O. J. Nieuwenkamp.
The golden deer struck by Rama’s arrow.
Anak Agoeng Gede Raka (Mas, 1910? - ?)
Kayu cempaka, Champak wood. | TM-3525-106
Sir David Attenborough with the last two female northern white rhinos alive on Earth.
© BBC Studios
Drawing of a Tiger and Deer attributed to I Nyoman Ngendon | Bali | Circa 1934
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands
Breastplate (civavonovono), Fiji, early to mid-19th century, sperm whale ivory, and black pearl shell, diameter: 9 1/4 in., lent by Mark and Carolyn Blackburn, photo courtesy of the Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
© musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac