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Contents
Description
Objects
Eight categories
Exhibition by culture
Divination in S. Africa
Divination in other cultures
Map
Essays
Glossary
Bibliography
Printing Instructions
 
even works from other cultures that practiced prophecy or divination—selected from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum—complement the African works in the "Art and Oracle" exhibition.
   
 
  Unfinished Stela to Amun-Ra, Dynasty 20 (1186–1070 B.C.), ca. 1181–1148 B.C
Limestone
Rogers Fund 1921 (21.2.6)

   
 
  The Twelve Animals of the Chinese Zodiac, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 19th century
Nephrite
Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902 (02.18.730, a–l)

   
 
  Bowl, Central or northern Iran, Late 12th–early 13th century
Overglaze and gilded composite body
Purchase, Rogers Fund, and Gift of the Schiff Foundation, 1957 (57.36.4)
   
 
  Four Horsemen from the Apocalypse, 1498
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528),
Woodcuts
Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, 1940 (40.139.6,5)
   
 
  Rattle in the Form of a Bird Tsimshian(?), British Columbia, 19th century
Wood, walrus ivory
The Michael C. Rockefeller
Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1962 (1979.206.444
)
   
 
  Terracotta Amphora (jar), Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 530 B.C.
Signed by Andokides as potter, attributed to the Andokides Painter (red-figure) and the Lysippides Painter (black-figure)
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1963 (63.11.6)

   
    Mirror with TLV Pattern, China, Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220)
Bronze
Rogers Fund, 1917 (17.118.42)
   
 

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