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BM: Arts of the Americas (Bot)
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Sharing artworks from Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Americas department. Not associated with the Brooklyn Museum.
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Bead https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/44238
Bead
December 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Large Jar https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/76232
Large, black globular jar with a rounded base and a body that gradually tapers into a narrower mouth opening. The exterior of the vessel is decorated with incised designs of two supernatural deities, referred to as the Oculate Being, with large eyes and sausage-shaped mouths. Each figure holds a trophy head in one hand. A long tongue-like streamer emanates from each figure's mouth, and streamers emanate from their heads and bodies. Surrounding the figures are geometrical incised designs. Outlined designs are filled with resin paint in green, red, and yellow. The lower quarter of the vessel is undecorated.
December 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Peccary Effigy Vessel https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/32402
Peccary effigy vessel with an opening at the end of the tail. The animal is elaborately decorated with a black basketry design on orange body. The neck of the vessel is painted red. There are two small holes for the nose. The interior of the eyes and ears are carved. The ceramic style is Mora Polychrome. Condition: good; dirty and slightly abraded surface; there is a red and white adhesive label with the number 114 written on it, on the chest of the animal.
December 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Footed Bowl https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/40626
Footed Bowl
December 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Coiled Ceremonial Basket https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/128401
Coiled Ceremonial Basket
December 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Urn https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/112312
Urn
December 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Shirt https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/55886
Shirt
December 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Parrot Figure https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/124639
Parrot Figure
December 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Hat, fragment https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/96921
Hat, fragment
December 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Household Box Representing Killer Whale (Taod) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1983
This box is carved on all sides with the Northwest Coast "form" style of abstracted figures representing a killer whale.It would have had a wood lid set on top.
December 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Belt https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/59473
Belt
December 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Textile Fragment, Unascertainable or Looped Figure https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/46390
Textile Fragment, Unascertainable or Looped Figure
December 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Ball-headed War Club with Carvings of Birds and Men https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/63501
Ball-headed war club with incised designs on the handle including six birds on one side and four (possibly) dancing or fighting figures on the other. The bird motifs are filled with black paint, the figures with red paint. The ball is painted black and there is fire decoration on the handle. The painted and incised designs on this club consist of six black gallinaceous birds (prairie chicken-like in silhouette) on one side. On the opposite side, two pairs of red human figures run toward one another. Each of the four carries a pipe in one hand and, in the other, an upraised arrow in an enigmatic pose. As demonstrated in this example, clubs were carved from one piece of wood. Often a thick branch attached to a trunk was chosen, or a knot of a tree would be formed into a head and the attached portion of the trunk into a handle, so that the grain had structural strength. The club is flat handled and sided and stained black at both the handle end and ball end.
December 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Pair of Leggings https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/63424
Leggings constructed with a long "tab" at each hip, near the top and above each outer seam. Below these tabs the outer seams on the rest of both leggings are decorated with one vertical strip of porcupine quillwork on each, outlined with beads in red, white-centered red, and black. The small seed bead and the cornalined'allepo (the white-centered) beads are not usually found on garments this early. Long fringes ornament the outer seams and the base of each strand is wrapped with red porcupine quills. The top and bottom edges of the leggings have short fringes. Shorter tabs are sewn on the bottom. This is generally referred to as bottom tabbed leggings, a style that permitted the tabs to stream along after the wearer when walking, a fashion that existed for only a brief time.
December 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Bird Bowl https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/35658
Bird Bowl
December 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Vessel Fragment; Tripod Leg https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/41552
Vessel Fragment; Tripod Leg
December 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Coloquio de Buenas Calaveras https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/90006
Coloquio de Buenas Calaveras
December 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Perforated Head, Top of Pin? https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/53122
Perforated Head, Top of Pin?
December 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Small Hollow Vessel https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/45426
Small Hollow Vessel
December 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Zapotecan costume: Belt https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/53343
Zapotecan costume: Belt
December 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Basket https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/130710
Basket
December 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Bowl https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/134672
Bowl
December 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Chief's Blanket https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/120645
This is a classic second phase "Chief" blanket in red/navy with stripes in plain white, a center core of red and navy block design. Condition: one area worn. Some soiling. Has velcro for hanging on long edge.
December 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Decorated Pitcher https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/150874
Decorated Pitcher
December 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Three Large Spoons https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/55626
Three Large Spoons
December 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM