Here is a bonus item for #NationalLobsterDay that I found while searching the Met collection because I’m just loving this clever design: FYI: “A kozuka is a handle of a by-knife that is part of a sword mounting. It is kept in a slot on the reverse of a katana…
After a long period of relatively little activity outside of posting info about events, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art’s social media has had a busy August sharing more images from its collection, including no less than a half dozen animal art-themed works! I have been sharing these on the…
Small cast copper-alloy ornaments are made across West Africa within the arc of the great Niger River. Brass or bronze casting has powerful associations with the supernatural because, like ironworking, it is a highly specialized process that uses fire to transform a raw material into a form that is useful…
