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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Powder horn with carved animals
Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Powder horn with carved animals

Date17th century
Label TextDogs—with teeth bared, hair bristling, and ears laid back—chase after their prey. The sequence of animals skillfully added to this horn may relate to chivalric hunting scenes in European woodcuts, which were furnished to Indian artists by their European patrons.
Object number47.19
Provenance[Heeramaneck Galleries, New York]; purchased from gallery with funds from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
DimensionsL.: 10 1/4 in.
MediumIvory
Danish
inscribed 1712
Object number: 48.218
Casket, carved
Indian
early 17th century
Object number: 58.26
Powder Horn, Christian Scenes
German
16th century
Object number: 59.125
Plaque:  Figure, flower medallions
Indian
16th century
Object number: 58.50
Krishna as the flute-playing cowherd (Venugopala)
Indian
ca. 1700 - 1900
Object number: 68.91
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Indian
ca. second half of the 9th century
Object number: 48.166
Indian
18th century
Object number: 46.268
Indian
18th century
Object number: 46.269
Standing female Janus figure with horn of magic
Songye culture, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Object number: 68.34
Hunting horn
German
16th century
Object number: 62.129