Audioguides

Koranic amulet
Senegal
Early 19^th century
Coxal bone of an ox
Gift of Jean Humbert, professor of Arabic, to the Academy Museum 1820; collected by César Hyppolite Bacle
MEG Inv. ETHAF K000239

Domestic Buddhist altar butsudan 佛壇
Japan
18^th century
Carved, gilt wood, ironwork
Gift of Edmond Rochette in 1938; acquired by him in Kyōto in 1890
MEG Inv. ETHAS 015607

Asia collection

Taima Mandala
Taima mandara當麻曼荼羅
Japan, Kyōto, Tōzenji temple 等善寺
1691 (Genroku era 元禄 , 4)
Paint on paper
Gift of Professor Inagaki Hisao 稲垣久雄 in 2007
Former collection of the Australian poet Harold F. Stewart (1916-1995)

Buddhist manuscript of the Kammavaca
Myanmar (Burma)
18th century
Ivory
Himavati donation in 1990

Armour with Fudō Myōō
Japan
15th- 17th century
Steel, silk, leather
Early collection

Magic stick, tunggal panaluan
Indonesia, Sumatra, Lake Toba
Batak Toba. 19th century
Wood, horsehair
Acquired from G. Schneider in 1931

Ethnomusicology collection

Sarasvati vina, veena
India, Tamil Nadu, Tanjore
Second half of the 19th century
Jackwood, papier-mâché, metal, seven metal strings, bone
Acquired in Geneva in 1987
MEG Inv. ETHMU 045732

Apa, waisted drum
Papua-New Guinea, Gulf of Papua
Late 19th century
Wood, plant fibre, resin, lizard skin
Acquired in London in 1893 from Mr Franck
MEG Inv. ETHMU K001989

Kangombio, lamellophone with a resonator
Zambia, Upper Zambezi
Lozi. Late 19th - early 20th century
Wood, metal plates, calabash, plant fibre cord
Gift of Alice Bertrand in 1941; formerly in the collection of Alfred Bertrand, who collected it in Zambia between 1895 and 1908
MEG Inv. ETHMU 018087

Po ti ka~m’ur, side-blown trumpet
Brazil, Para State, Upper Iriri, Rio Chiche
Kayapó- Mekränoti. 20th century
Bamboo, sheath of plaited plant fibres, feathers, tucum nuts, beads, cotton
Gustaaf Verswijver mission to Brazil, 1975-1977; acquired in 1981
MEG Inv. ETHMU 040838

Americas collection

Ceremonial bucket
United States, Alaska, Deering
Iñupiat. Early 20th century
Bone, ivory, leather, sinew, plant fibre, wood? Whale baleen?
Gift of Georges Barbey in 1956
MEG Inv. ETHAM 025852

False Face Society mask
Canada, Great Lakes region
Haudenosaunee. Early 19th century
Wood, hair, metal, leather
Gift of Jules Pictet to the Academic Museum in 1825
MEG Inv. ETHAM K000130

The god Huehueteotl
Mexico, central plateau
Aztec. 13th – 16th century
Volcanic stone
Ferdinand de Saussure bequest in 1913; collected by his father, Henri, in 1855
MEG Inv. ETHAM 006557

Shrunken head tsantsa
Ecuador, Province of Pastaza
Shuar? Early 20th century
Human skin, hair, plant fibre, wood, cotton
Acquired before 1968
MEG Inv. ETHAM 055846

Europe collection

Salt box
France, Savoie, Maurienne, Bessans
19th century
Hollowed out and carved solid wood.
Length: 46.5 cm.
Width: 14 cm.
Height: 23.5 cm.
Georges Amoudruz collection acquired in 1976; collected between 1934 and 1937
MEG Inv.ETHEU 102836

Man’s belt ornament charivari kette
Austria and Germany, Bavarian Alps
19th century
Metal, horn, animal teeth and claws
Gift of the SAMEG in 2014
MEG Inv . ETHEU 066346 ; 066347 ; 066348

Poland, Lubaczow
2013
Copper-plated metal, ears of corn, barley, rye, oats, and flax.
H ± 128 cm, W ± 100 cm, D ± 95 cm.
Research and collection campaign conducted in collaboration
with the Kresów Museum and the MuCEM.
MEG Inv. ETHEU 066319

Distaff "filettes des dames", with a spindle
France, Vaucluse, Avignon
19th century
Wood
Acquired from Jean Brunet, founding member of the Félibrige, for the Archaeology Museum in 1882
MEG Inv. ETHEU K001004

Set of phalerae or mule discs lunes de couble
France and Italy
First half of the 19th century
Brass and copper
Georges Amoudruz collection acquired in 1976; except 11 and 13: Gift of Hippolyte Jean Gosse to the Archaeology Museum in 1880 and 1884
MEG Inv. ETHEU K000644; 100242; 108621-108623; 108625-108631

Animal finery known as ‘charlette’, chiètre, or cherlaz
Vercorin, Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland.
Circa 1930.
Carved and painted wood.
Height: 50.5 cm.
Width: 26 cm.
Depth: 24 cm.
The Georges Amoudruz Collection; acquired in 1976.
ETHEU100335

Africa collection

Kozo Janus-headed dog figure
Congo, DR Congo or Angola, Lower Congo, Mayombe forest
Yombe. Late 19^th century
Wood, iron, brass, composite materials
Acquired in Paris in 1930
MEG Inv. ETHAF 012780

Plate of the kings. Portraits of seventeen Bamum kings, from Nshare Yen to Njoya
Drawing by Ibrahim Njoya
Cameroon, Grassfields, Foumban
Bamum kingdom. Circa 1930
Drawing paper, Indian ink and coloured pencils
Gift of the missionary pastor Jean Rusillon in 1966
MEG Inv. ETHAF 033559

Complete nsekh-o-byeri reliquary
Gabon, Middle Ogooue, Ndjolé region
Fang, Betsi subgroup. 19^th century
Wood, bark, iron, plant fibres, human bones
Acquired in 1936 from Pastor Fernand Grébert, a missionary in Gabon from 1913 to 1931
MEG Inv. ETHAF 015232

Sculpted tusk from a royal altar
Nigeria, Benin kingdom
Edo. Circa 1735, reign of Oba Eresonyen
Ivory, burn marks
Acquired in 1949 from the Berkeley Gallery, London. Collected probably after the sacking of Benin City in 1897
MEG Inv. ETHAF 021934

Guro gyéla lu zahouli (fiali) or Baule ndoma mask
Ivory Coast
Guro or Baule. 20^th century
Wood
Acquired from the German ethnologist Hans Himmelheber in 1967; collected by him in 1963
MEG Inv. ETHAF 033697

Oceania collection

Navigation chart of the Ratak and Ralik Chains
Marshall Islands
Late 19^th - early 20^th century
Wood, coral, plant fibre, shell. H 45 cm, W 28,5 cm
Acquired from Adolf Rittscher circa 1930; donated by a subject of King Kabua I in 1903
MEG Inv. ETHOC 054713

‘au'au or pihao canoe prow ornament
French Polynesia, Marquesas Islands
Wood. H 23 cm
Before 1800
Long-term loan by Eugène Pittard in 1921; given by his son Jean-Jacques in 1966
MEG Inv. ETHOC 008937

'ahu'ula feather cloak
Hawaii Islands
Early 19^th century
Feathers, olona fibre (Touchardia latifolia). H 146 cm, W 230 cm
Gift of Vincent Rumpff to the Academy Museum in 1829
MEG Inv. ETHOC K000206

Karè e ta engraved bamboo illustrating yam and taro growing
New Caledonia
Kanak. 19^th century
Bamboo. H 153,5 cm
Gift of Nancy Anne Balleidier in 1937
MEG Inv. ETHOC 020507

Malagan marratampirivit overmodelled skull
Papua New Guinea, New Ireland
Early 19^th century
Human skull, mastic Parinarium laurinum, vegetable matter, shell (Cypraea tigris), operculum of Turbo petholatus, pigments. H 20 cm
Acquired from Arthur Speyer in 1924
MEG Inv. ETHOC 010205