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Victoria Falls, South Africa
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide, T244 from Tour of the World, vol 5 and 6.
Cleopatra's Temple at Erment
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph of the smaller of two temples on the site. 1857.
Looking up at the Great Pyramid
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide, #T234 in "Tour of the World" series, v. 5 and 6.
Nigerian House of the Head Personal Shrine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)four small framed mirrors are attached to the top section.
Nigerian Cap Mask
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)and a carved line representing a beard extending from the hairline to the chin. A hat that extends upwards and back from the forehead is painted yellow with a narrow red band at the bottom.
Nigerian Eshu Cult Figure
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)there is also another necklace from which several strings of cowrie shells hang down past the base of the carving. The figure holds a drum in his left hand underneath the shells.
View Southwest from the First Pylon, Temple of Luxor
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide, T 237 from Tour of the World, vol 5 and 6.
Penguins on Dassen Island, near Capetown, South Africa
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide T245 from series "Tour of the World".
Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen in the Valley of The Kings, near Thebes, Egypt
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide, T238 from Tour of the World series, vol 5 and 6.
The Great Temple, Abu Simbel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph showing the colossal statues flanking the entrance to the temple. 1857. Francis Frith, the photographer, was a world-wide traveler. He made a series of trips to the Nile region in Egypt from 1856 to 1860.
Panya Ngombe Face Mask
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This triangular wood mask is nearly flat and painted all over with a reddish paint. A narrow band of alternating black and white triangles is painted along the outer edge of the face from eye to eye along the chin. The wide eyes have very narrow slits and bulge out. A long, slightly flaring nose extends down from the raised eyebrows that are painted black. A small raised rec...
Nigerian Offertory Bowl with Lid
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A decorative bowl carved from a single piece of wood in the form of a kneeling woman holding a lidded bowl in the shape of a rooster. The woman has large breasts and is unclothed. Four rings suggesting neck rings are carved around her neck and three rings are carved at her hips. The arms and shoulders are carved to suggest a triangular tattoo decoration. The eyes are large, ...
Nigerian Drum
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Carved wooden male figure kneels on short disk and supports a cylindrical hollow drum on his head and hands. Large eyes, a wide nose and closed mouth are carved on the face. The figure wears a simple loincloth. The drum is carved with parallel lines around the bottom and near the top, with diagonal lines connecting them. A hide cover is attached over the open top.
Great Sphinx of Gizeh
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide, #T 233 from Tour of the World, vol 5 and 6.
Nigerian Diviner's Staff
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The long staff is roughly wrought (hand-made) out of iron. There are two clusters of long, narrow cones attached along the shaft and another inverted cluster at the top, supporting a disk and a simple, abstracted bird form.
Colonnade of the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Temple of Karnak, Thebes
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide, #T 236 from Tour of the World, vol. 5 and 6.
Entrance to the Great Temple, Luxor
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph of the entrance to the temple, 1857.
Ghana Fertility Figure (Akua'ba)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)the cheeks are carved with shallow marks representing scarification. An elongated neck is carved to represent wide metal neck rings. The figure's breasts and belly button are indicated. Strings of tiny beads hang from a hole in the end of each arm and are wrapped around the body.
Sculpture from the Outer Wall, Dendera
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph of a section of the wall of the temple at Dendera, Egypt. 1857.
Road to the Pyramids--Westward Toward Gizeh
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide, #T232 from Tour of the World series, vol 5 and 6.
Sierra Leone Sowei Helmet Mask
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Dark wooden carved helmet mask with long braids of human hair attached with string to holes along the lower edge. A small, diamond-shaped face with almond-shaped eyes is carved in relatively low relief over a stock neck. There are three scarification marks at each temple. Hair is indicated with incised cross-hatched lines and a head-piece indicated by five bulging projection...
Ghana Asipim (Chief's Chair)
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Low chair made of wood with short, straight legs, four stretchers, a straight but slightly angled short back. The top rail of the back rises to a high curve
Nigerian Ibeji Twin Figure
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A carved wooden male standing figure with short round base. The head is pointed with coiffure, scarification and facial features carved in low relief. The body is crudely articulated, probably because it was originally covered with shells or beads. One string of beads encircles the neck, one encircles the waist, and one hangs from each arm. There is evidence of encrustation,...
Ghana Wooden Comb
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This narrow comb with nine round, tapered tines is carved in one piece from light-colored wood. The large, decorative carved handle is flat on the back but the front is carved in the form of a female figure. The oval face has round eyes and a triangular nose. The elongated neck is carved with concentric rings. Shoulders are indicated but there are no arms. The breasts are la...

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