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Photo by Tom Joyce
Ritual Altar, Ikenga
Photo by Tom Joyce

Ritual Altar, Ikenga

Object number2007.246
Photo CreditPhoto by Tom Joyce
Exhibition HistoryAsheville, North Carolina, Life Force at the Anvil, A Blacksmith's Art from Africa, May 22 - August 28, 1998
Credit LinePartial gift of Tom Joyce and partial purchase with funds from John and Robyn Horn
Dimensions2 x 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (5.1 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm)
MediumCast copper alloy
Photo by Tom Joyce
Object number: 2007.244
Photo by Tom Joyce
early 20th century
Object number: 2007.245
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17th-18th century
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Bronze altar (ex-voto)
Chinese
ca. 505
Object number: 50.156
Altar Cross
19th century
Object number: 48.91
Indian
19th century
Object number: 57.155
Portable shrine (gau)
17th-18th century
Object number: 65.95
Prayer wheel
20th century
Object number: 44.218
Photo: Scott Leen
late 19th to early 20th century
Object number: 2021.23.9
Reliquary casket
French, probably Limoges
ca. 1200 - 1225
Object number: 49.38
Pyx
French, probably Limoges
mid 13th century
Object number: 49.39