21 UMMA Objects
Sort by

A curvy jar with a long neck and a lid.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Yixing ware covered jar
19th century
Gift of Mrs. Henry Jewett Greene for The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jewett Greene Memorial Collection
1971/2.77A&B
Gold-weight in the shape of a a cylindrical rod with a pointed tip and a handle made of a short, cylindrical rod between two circular discs. The majority of the cylindrical rod is covered in a pattern of small, raised dots. 
Akan (Akan (culture or style))
Gold-weight
1900 – 1985
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.515
Shoe with a leather sole attached to a cloth lining with metal tacks. The outside of the shoe is covered in multi-colored beadwork; the toe has a pattern of zig-zags in orange, black, and white while the sides and upper flaps have an interlacing pattern in cream, red, blue, and orange. The top of the shoe is bound with red cloth along the edge. 
Yoruba (Yoruba (culture or style))
Oba's Slipper (One of a pair)
20th century
Gift of the Honorable Jack Faxon
1998/2.63.1
Silver spoon with figure of a man at the terminal end of the handle
German
One of a set of 12 Apostle Spoons
1867 – 1899
Gift of Raymond C. Smith
1975/2.190
Silver spoon with figure of a man at the terminal end of the handle
German
One of a set of 12 Apostle Spoons
1867 – 1899
Gift of Raymond C. Smith
1975/2.191
This hour-glass shaped stool is supported by two caryatid figures who sit in a pose of lamentation—crouched with head in hands. Scarified patterned abstracted tears spill from their lower eyelids. Brass studs adorn the perimeter of the stool’s seat, base, and figures. Both figures wear strings of black, red and white beads around their necks.
Chokwe (Chokwe (culture or style))
Caryatid stool
1850 – 1899
Gift of Candis and Helmut Stern
2005/1.204

Indian (Indian (South Asian))
Bhairava
1500 – 1899
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Leo S. Figiel and Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Figiel
1981/2.55
Silver spoon with figure of a man at the terminal end of the handle
German
One of a set of 12 Apostle Spoons
1867 – 1899
Gift of Raymond C. Smith
1975/2.184
Silver spoon with figure of a man at the terminal end of the handle
German
One of a set of 12 Apostle Spoons
1867 – 1899
Gift of Raymond C. Smith
1975/2.186
Silver spoon with figure of a man at the terminal end of the handle
German
One of a set of 12 Apostle Spoons
1867 – 1899
Gift of Raymond C. Smith.
1975/2.188
Open-back shoes with leather soles attached to a cloth-lining with metal tacks. The beadwork on the upper part of the shoe is blue with a British style crown rendered in gold, silver, red, blue, yellow, and green beads. 
Yoruba (Yoruba (culture or style))
Oba's Slippers
20th century
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.307.1-2
Gold-weight in the shape of a wide, flat blade with a curved hook at one end and a handle in the form of two balls connected by a narrow rod with a small ball the end. 
Akan (Akan (culture or style))
Gold-weight
1900 – 1985
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.514
Loading…