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Photo by Tom Joyce
Gong
Photo by Tom Joyce

Gong

Date18th - 19th century
Object number2007.257
Photo CreditPhoto by Tom Joyce
Exhibition HistoryAsheville, North Carolina, Life Force at the Anvil, A Blacksmith's Art from Africa, May 22 - August 28, 1998Published ReferencesDje, Jacqueline Cogdell, ed. Turn Up the Volume! A Celebration of African Music. Los Angeles: University of California, 1999
Credit LinePartial gift of Tom Joyce and partial purchase with funds from John and Robyn Horn
Dimensions37 x 13 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (94 x 33.7 x 21 cm)
MediumIron
Photo by Tom Joyce
19th - 20th century
Object number: 2007.253
Mirror:  Maenad and Doe
Etruscan
ca. 470 B.C.
Object number: 48.23
Photo by Tom Joyce
19th - 20th century
Object number: 2007.194
Photo by Tom Joyce
19th - 20th century
Object number: 2007.189
Photo by Tom Joyce
19th - 20th century
Object number: 2007.169
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
1958-63
Object number: 2017.22.3
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
1958-63
Object number: 2017.22.4
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Persian
12th to early 13th century
Object number: 38.139
Ritual gong (kei)
Japanese
1185- 1333
Object number: 72.2