Geography
Tribal
Masks, figures and vessels from living traditions
Masks, figures and vessels made inside living traditions rather than for a market. Provenance matters more here than anywhere else in the museum.
What to look for
Tool marks from use rather than manufacture, wear at the grip, and a documented collection history.
Within this
Each has its own page, with its own searches.
Search the collection
The searches this geography is worth looking at. Each opens the collection for it.
- African tribal mask
- Native American basketry
- Polynesian tiki figure
- Inuit soapstone carving
- Pre-Columbian textile
- Oceanic tribal art
- African Kuba cloth
- Papua New Guinea carving
- Native American pottery
- African Yoruba sculpture
- Tibetan Thangka painting
- Mayan terracotta figure
- African carved figure
- African Luba mask
- Tibetan bronze statue
- Tibetan prayer wheel
- Nepalese gilt bronze Buddha
- Southeast Asian Buddha head