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Eugène Delacroix (French (culture or style))
Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia
1835 – 1845
Museum Purchase
1968/2.75
Horizontally positioned statue in the shape of a crocodile. The back of the statue is flattened with a slight concave in the middle. The body contains carved linear designs and the tail has a rectangular shape.
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Rubbing Oracle
1920 – 1930
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1988/1.131
Horizontally positioned statue in the shape of an animal. The back of the statue is flattened with a slight concave in the middle. The body is decorated with a carved diamond design consisting of intersecting lines. and the tail has a rectangular shape. There is a metal ring wrapped around the neck in addition to multicolored beads. There is also a piece of fiber attached to the neck of the statue with a small bell-shaped wooden piece attached to the end of the fiber.
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Friction Oracle
20th century
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.358
A ceramic vessel in two parts. The bottom of the vessel consists of a hollowed base, which has a hole in the bottom, exposing its false bottom. The decoration on the outside includes two anthromorphic figures whose limbs are stretched along the outside of the base. They are decorated with 6 elevated dots on either side. <br /><br /> The lid of the vessel includes 4 times 3 dots radiating from the central anthropomorphic head. 
Baulé (Baule (culture))
Mouse Oracle Pot with lid (pot)
Gift of Jean Graham
1985/2.60.1

Baulé (Baule (culture))
Mouse Oracle Pot with lid (lid)
Gift of Jean Graham
1985/2.60.2

Kurt Seligmann (American (North American))
The Riddle, Plate 4 from 'The Myth of Oedipus'
1944
Museum purchase made possible by the Alfred E. Pernt Memorial Fund in honor of Doctor of Technical Sciences Max H. J. Pernt and his wife Anna Pernt (née Mueller)
1986/2.97.4
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