Pacific Biosciences Research Center


 

University of Hawaii at Manoa


Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology

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Georg von Békésy's Art Collection (Page 4)

 

 

Wooden female figure
Height 27.0 cm.
Yoruba tribe, Nigeria.

"This is a fine example of the figures for the twin cult (ere ibeji) which are the most widespread art form among the Yoruba. When a twin or twins die, they must be replaced by images such as this one, which are kept by the mother and treated like a human being, fed, washed, clothed and decorated with strings of beads appropriate to the cult to which the twins were devoted..." William Fagg

 

 

Bronze plaque representing a musician
Height 45.0 cm.
Benin City, Nigeria.

 

Royal memorial head in bronze
Height 36.0 cm.
Benin City, Nigeria.

 

 

Stone figure of a chief
Height 29.5 cm.
Bakongo tribe, western Zaire.

 

 

Wooden dance mask
Height 52.0 cm.
Eastern Bapende tribe, western Zaire.

 

 

Albrecht Dürer
1471 Nuremburg 1528
Melencolia I. 1514.
Copperplate engraving 23.8 X 18.4 cm.

 

 

Statuette of the Apostle Peter, Gilt bronze
Height 16.0 cm.
Probably first quarter of 17th century.
Possibly French.

 

 

Pocket watch in the shape of a skull. Silver
Height 6.0 cm; depth 6.5 cm.; width 4.5 cm.
Signed: Moyse Blois.

 

 

 

Pocket watch in the shape of a skull. Silver
Height 6.0 cm; depth 6.5 cm.; width 4.5 cm.
Signed: Moyse Blois.

 

 

 

 

Max Beckmann
Leipzig 1884-1950 New York.
Self-portrait, 1922.
Wood-cut. 47 X 34.4 cm.

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