November 29, 2022 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Left: Decorative Panel for Chief’s Doorway
Fowler Museum at UCLA. The Jerome L. Joss Collection. X87.8
Right: Figurative Tomb Door
Fowler Museum at UCLA. The Jerome L. Joss Collection. X86.3132

 
 
 
November 28, 2022 | Reimar Schefold

Cats in the Sakuddei uma.
© Reimar Schefold

 
 
November 23, 2022 | Hans Hägerdal
 

"Temple d'idoles pres de Coupang (Timor)." Atlas pittoresque, planche 191 |
Jules Dumont d'Urville |Atlas pittoresque. [Journey to the South Pole and Oceania on the Corvettes L'Astrolabe and La Zélée to Execute the Order of the King during the Years 1837–1838–1839–1840 under the Command of Dumont d'Urville. Pictorial Atlas.]

 
 
November 18, 2022 | Editorial Team
 

Foliated mirror with birds and floral scrolls
Early or mid-Tang dynasty, late 7th-early 8th century
China
Cast bronze and applied gold plaque with repoussé, chased, and ring-punched decoration
Diam x D: 22.1 x 1.7 cm (8 11/16 x 11/16 in)
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Freer Gallery of Art
F1930.45

 
 
November 16, 2022 | Editorial Team
 

Green Tara
c. 1260s
Central Tibet
Thangka; gum tempera, ink, and gold on sized cotton
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund by exchange 1970.156
© The Cleveland Museum of Art

 
 
November 11, 2022 | Editorial Team
 

Primary Title: Sonabai Rajawar's House, Madhya Pradesh
Artist: Jyoti Bhatt, Indian, born 1934
Classification(s): Modern Photograph
Date: 1983
Medium: Silver gelatin print
Dimensions: Image: H. 11.6 cm, W. 17.1 cm; Paper: H. 12.7 cm, W. 17.8 cm
Place of Origin: Madhya Pradesh, India
Accession Number: PHY.01927
Image courtesy of the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru

 
 
October 26, 2022 | Dr. Reimar Schefold
 

Two wives of kerei adorned for a ritual, cooking together at the communal hearth, Sakuddei uma, 1978.
© Reimar Schefold

 
 
 
October 25, 2022 | Steven G. Alpert

Porka Festival Mouth Mask | Luhulei | Leti
© The Dallas Museum of Art | Texas, USA

 
 
October 24, 2022 | Tomasz Ewertowski
 

Bogor Botanical Garden | 1929
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

 
 
October 21, 2022 | Steven G. Alpert