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African sculpture an exhibition at Princeton University from the Museum of African Art, February 1971

Author:
Museum of African Art (U.S.)  Search this
Hommel, William L  Search this
Princeton University  Search this
Physical description:
36 pages illustrations, map 21 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Expositions
Exhibition catalogs
Place:
Africa, West
Afrika
West Africa
Date:
1971
Topic:
Idols and images  Search this
Sculpture  Search this
Idoles et images  Search this
Maske  Search this
Plastik  Search this
Call number:
NB1098 .M85X
NB1098.M85X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_8611
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Batéké de la collection Claude et Sophie Lehuard : collecté au Congo-Brazzaville entre 1924 et 1933 par Robert Lehuard Alain Lecomte

Author:
Lecomte, Alain 1950-  Search this
Contributor:
N'Sonde, S.R. Kovo  Search this
Subject:
Lehuard, Claude Art collections  Search this
Lehuard, Sophie Art collections  Search this
Physical description:
98 pages color illustrations 30 cm
Type:
Catalogs
Catalogues
Place:
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo
Date:
2017
Topic:
Art, Teke  Search this
Figurines  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Animism  Search this
Art batéké  Search this
Idoles et images  Search this
Animisme  Search this
Art--Private collections  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1154908
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Achter spiegels : spiegel- en spijkerbeelden uit Neder-Kongo [tentoonstelling, Afrika Museum / tekst, H. Witte]

Author:
Witte, Hans Dr  Search this
Afrika Museum (Berg en Dal, Netherlands)  Search this
Physical description:
35 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Date:
1981
Topic:
Idols and images  Search this
Fetishism  Search this
Mirrors--Religious aspects  Search this
Nails  Search this
Call number:
NB1099.C6 A17
NB1099.C6A17
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_146531
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Karnataka's rich heritage temple sculptures & dancing apsaras : an amalgam of Hindu mythology, Natyasastra and silpasastra Lalit Chugh

Author:
Chugh, Lalit  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 3023 pages, 128 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (black and white) 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
India
Karnataka
Inde
Karnātaka
Date:
2017
Topic:
Hindu temples  Search this
Hindu sculpture  Search this
Apsaras in art  Search this
Dancers in art  Search this
Hindu mythology in art  Search this
Idols and images in art  Search this
Art, Indic  Search this
Hindu architecture  Search this
Temples hindous  Search this
Sculpture hindoue  Search this
Danseurs dans l'art  Search this
Mythologie hindoue dans l'art  Search this
Idoles et images dans l'art  Search this
Art de l'Inde  Search this
Architecture hindoue  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1145070
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Decoding a Hindu temple royalty and religion in the iconographic program of the Virupaksha Temple, Pattadakal Cathleen Cummings

Author:
Cummings, Cathleen Ann 1964-  Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 685 pages illustrations 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
India
Paṭṭadakal
Inde
Virupakshatempel
Pattadakal
Date:
2014
Topic:
Hindu temples  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Hindu sculpture  Search this
Dharma  Search this
Mokṣa  Search this
Chalukyas  Search this
Pāśupatas  Search this
Śaivism  Search this
Moksha  Search this
Chālukya  Search this
Śivaïsme  Search this
Tempel  Search this
Ikonographie  Search this
Hinduismus  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1145136
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An anthropology of images in contemporary Christian orthodox Ethiopia Siena-Antonia de Ménonville ; foreword Erwan Dianteil

Author:
Ménonville, Siena-Antonia de  Search this
Subject:
YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān  Search this
Physical description:
385 pages illustrations 21 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Ethiopia
Éthiopie
Date:
2019
Topic:
Christianity  Search this
Idols and images--Worship  Search this
Christianisme  Search this
Idoles et images--Culte  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1156081
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Idoles parées / textes, Éric Touchaleaume et Pablo Touchaleaume = Adorned idols / texts, Éric Touchaleaume et Pablo Touchaleaume

Title:
Adorned idols
Author:
Touchaleaume, Pablo  Search this
Touchaleaume, Eric  Search this
Galerie Pablo Touchaleaume  Search this
Physical description:
75 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 21 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
2014
Topic:
Idols and images in art  Search this
Human figure in art  Search this
Art  Search this
Sculpture  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1050394
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Zuzōgaku nyūmon gimonfu de yomu Nihon bijutsu Yamamoto Yōko cho

Title:
図像学入門 : 疑問符で読む日本美術 / 山本陽子著
Author:
Yamamoto, Yōko 1955-  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 229 pages illustrations 19 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Japan
Date:
2015
Topic:
Art, Japanese  Search this
Art  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Call number:
N7350 .Y295 2015
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1056032
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The art of power, the power of art studies in Benin iconography edited by Paula Ben-Amos and Arnold Rubin

Author:
Ben-Amos, Paula  Search this
Rubin, Arnold  Search this
University of California, Los Angeles Museum of Cultural History  Search this
Physical description:
111 pages illustrations, map 28 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Expositions
Aufsatzsammlung
Exhibition catalogs
Place:
Nigeria
Benin
Date:
1983
Topic:
Art, Beninese  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Art béninois  Search this
Idoles et images  Search this
Aufsatzsammlung  Search this
Kunst  Search this
African art  Search this
Call number:
N7399.N5 A78
N7399.N5A78
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_194984
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The Bes-image in pharaonic Egypt / by James F. Romano

Author:
Romano, James F  Search this
Physical description:
2 v. (xiii, 879 leaves) : ill
Type:
Books
Place:
Egypt
Date:
1990
1989
Topic:
Bes (Egyptian deity)  Search this
Gods, Egyptian  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
Gods in art  Search this
Call number:
BL2450.G6 R75 1989a
BL2450.G6R75 1989a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_398776
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Collection de fétiches du Mayombe

Author:
Strycker, Louis de  Search this
Physical description:
[23] leaves
Type:
Books
Place:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Date:
1989
1960
[196-?]
Topic:
Idols and images  Search this
Fetishism  Search this
Religion  Search this
Call number:
NB1099.C6 S92 1960a
NB1099.C6S92 1960a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_381369
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Mudrās in Buddhist and Hindu practices : an iconographic consideration / Fredrick W. Bunce

Author:
Bunce, Fredrick W  Search this
Physical description:
xxix, 346 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
Type:
Encyclopedias
Date:
2005
C2005
Topic:
Mudrās (Buddhism)  Search this
Mudrās (Hinduism)  Search this
Gesture  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Call number:
BQ5125 .M8 B86 2005
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_867667
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Atua : sacred gods from Polynesia / Michael Gunn

Title:
Sacred gods from Polynesia
Author:
Gunn, Michael  Search this
Publisher:
National Gallery of Australia  Search this
Host institution:
St. Louis Art Museum  Search this
Subject:
National Gallery of Australia  Search this
Physical description:
256 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Polynesia
Date:
2014
Topic:
Art, Polynesian  Search this
Gods in art  Search this
Gods, Polynesian  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Arts, Primitive  Search this
Art and religion  Search this
Religious life and customs  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1046577
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Manual on the bronzes in the Government Museum, Chennai : a typological and descriptive account of the bronzes displayed in the re-organised Bronze Gallery / [compiled] by R. Kannan

Author:
Government Museum (Chennai, India) Bronze Gallery  Search this
Kannan, R. 1955-  Search this
Subject:
Government Museum (Chennai, India)  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 257 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Catalogs
Place:
India
Date:
2003
Topic:
Bronze sculpture, Indic  Search this
Architectural metal-work  Search this
Gods in art  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Call number:
NB1230 .G68 2003
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_894813
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Two Lamaistic pantheons / edited with introduction and indexes by Walter Eugene Clark ... from materials collected by the late Baron A. von Staël-Holstein

Author:
Clark, Walter Eugene 1881-1960  Search this
Staël-Holstein, A (Alexander) Freiherr von 1877-1937  Search this
Beijing (China) Baoxiang lou (Temple)  Search this
Physical description:
2 v. plates, facsims. 26 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1937
Topic:
Buddhism  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Dge-lugs-pa (Sect)  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_882562
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Traversée des mondes : artmédecine en Afrique / textes choisis par François Grange, Mondher Kilani et Francesco Panese ; catalogue réalisé par Carolina Liebling, François Mottas et Francesco Panese

Author:
Grange, Françoise  Search this
Kilani, Mondher 1948-  Search this
Panese, Francesco  Search this
Liebling, Carolina  Search this
Mottas, François  Search this
Fondation Claude Verdan  Search this
Physical description:
178 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Africa
Date:
2001
C2001
Topic:
Traditional medicine  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Sculpture, African  Search this
Shamanism  Search this
Art, Shamanistic  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_714546
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Procesos y visitas de idolatrías : Cajatambo, siglo XVII : con documentos anexos / Pierre Duviols [editor] ; revisión paleográfica, Laura Gutiérrez Arbulú y Luis Andrade Ciudad ; selección de los textos y estudios históricos, Pierre Duviols ; textos quechuas traducidos, editados y anotados, César Itier

Author:
Duviols, Pierre  Search this
Gutiérrez Arbulú, Laura  Search this
Andrade Ciudad, Luis  Search this
Itier, César  Search this
Duviols, Pierre Cultura andina y represión  Search this
Subject:
Jesuits Missions History  Search this
Physical description:
882 p., [1] leaf of folded plates : maps ; 25 cm
Type:
Sources
Place:
Peru
Cajatambo (Province)
Cajatambo (Peru : Province)
Date:
2003
17th century
Topic:
History  Search this
Religion  Search this
Rites and ceremonies  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Government relations  Search this
Cajatambo (Perú)--Historia--Siglo XVII  Search this
Inquisición--Cajatambo (Perú)--Historia--Siglo XVII  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_727543
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Indo ni okeru raihaizō no keishiki kenkyū / Henmi Baiei cho

Title:
印度に於ける禮拜像の形式硏究 / 逸見梅榮著
Raihaizō no keishiki kenkyū
禮拜像の形式硏究
Study of the forms of images for worship in India
Author:
Henmi, Baiei 1891-  Search this
Physical description:
1, 19, 17, 392, 8 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
India
Date:
1935
Shōwa 10 [1935]
Topic:
Buddhism  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Call number:
230 .H4
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_884917
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Women auspicious and divine : images of Southeast Asia and India / Nancy Hock

Author:
Hock, Nancy  Search this
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco  Search this
Subject:
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Avery Brundage Collection  Search this
Physical description:
15 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
India
Southeast Asia
Date:
1990
C1990
Topic:
Hindu gods in art  Search this
Buddhist gods in art  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Sculpture  Search this
Sculpture, Southeast Asian  Search this
Call number:
NB1001 .H62
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_877982
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Born in heaven, made on earth : the making of the cult image in the ancient Near East / edited by Michael B. Dick

Author:
Dick, Michael Brennan 1943-  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 243 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Middle East
Date:
1999
Topic:
Rites and ceremonies  Search this
Idols and images  Search this
Call number:
BL1060 .B67
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_893004

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