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A head-shaped tan and red-orange ceramic vessel with a round, expressionless face atop two squat feet, darker markings around the eyes and down the cheeks.

Abstract Portrait Vessel of a Ruler with Painted Face Resting on Feet, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A squat oval-shaped ceramic jar, painted black, with a cylindrical top and two very small handles on either side of the top. Some visible paint loss.

Blackware Jar with Single Spout, 1200–1450

Chimú

Round ceramic jar with large black S-shaped geometric designs on cream ground.

Storage Jar with Horizontal Bands of Interlocking Scrolls, 875–1130

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

A work made of silver, leather, turquoise, and copper alloy.

Bow Guard (Ketoh), 1900–20

Navajo (Diné)

A light-brown, kettlebell-shaped vessel with a top spout features a red line drawing of a seated warrior facing right, wearing a stylized patterned dress and holding a weapon.

Stirrup Spout Vessel with Fineline Enthroned Warrior Motif, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Jar in the Form of a Phallus, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A work made of watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over traces of graphite, on thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper.

The Lone Boat, North Woods Club, Adirondacks, 1892

Winslow Homer

Sculpted head of a medium-skinned man in a beige headdress with geometric pattern and distinctive stirrup-shaped top piece.

Portrait Vessel of a Ruler, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A work made of color woodcut on cream japanese paper.

Fishing Hut on North Shore, 1908

Gustave Baumann

A work made of gelatin silver print.

From My Window at An American Place, North, 1930/31

Alfred Stieglitz

A perspective drawing of a city with tall rectilinear buildings on city blocks connected by flat bridges with roadways below.

Highrise City (Hochhausstadt): Perspective View: North-South Street, 1924

Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer

A work made of plant fibers.

Gambling Tray, c. 1900

Yokuts

A work made of silver.

Squash-Blossom Necklace, c. 1915

Navajo (Diné)

A work made of burnished blackware ceramic.

Storage Jar, c. 1900

Sara Fina Tafoya

A work made of silver and leather.

Concho Belt, 1880–95

Navajo (Diné)

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Jar in the Form of an Abstract Figure with Modeled Head and Wide Collar, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A work made of plant fibers.

Twined Basketry Bowl, c. 1870–1900

Sally Burris

A work made of plant fibers.

Feasting or Storage Basket, c. 1910

Maidu

A work made of silver and leather.

Concho Belt, 1880s

Navajo (Diné)

A work made of plant fibers, feathers, and glass and clamshell beads.

Wedding Basket, c. 1895

Pomo

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