Humanities | D. S. McNeill

Non-Western Arts

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Cambodian Buddha originally fr India Gautama Buddha 563 - 483 BCE Cambodian version painting	Chinese Budai Chinese Limestone

Brahma multiple heads ~ Ved Hindu Creator god multiple arms Bronze	Dancing Shiva as Nataraj The Destroyer Hindu god dancing w/ multiple arms Bronze

Vishnu - Preserver of Universe multiple arms Hindu god portrayed with blue skin painting	Vishnu Reclining on Snake Hindu god Relief Carving

Hindu god -- Ganesha Hindu god wisdom, success, good luck elephant headed riding on a mouse	Yakshini 3rd century BCE India like Aphrodite stone looks after treasures

Harmika on Great Stupa of Sanchi 3rd century BCE India Railing on top Enclosing umbrella shaped top stone	Torana of Great Stupa 3rd century BCE India stone fence

Gopura at Indian Temple India Hindu ornamented gateway entrance Southern India	Chedis 1600s to 1800 Wat Po Thailand / Bangkok Buddhist temple

Asian Batik technique South East Asia wax-resist dyeing	Wat Xieng Thong 1560 Asian wood and gold

Chinese oracle bones 14th - 11th centurie Chinese early Chinese writing	Sprigging Technique pottery technique Chinese attachments to clay clay

Chinese Bi Neolithic art Chinese Sculptures circular with hole in center Jade symbol of heaven	Chinese Pagoda Chinese Architecture wooden

Great Wall of China 5th cent BCE - 16t 4000+ miles long Stone	Sumi-e Painting Chinese brushes and ink on rice pape

Japanese Haniwa 5000 CE / 250 - 550 Japanese Sculptures cylindrical unglazed ceramic found in burial mounds	Horyu-Ji Temple in Osaka 607 CE Japanese Buddhist Temple Wooden oldest wooden structures

Todai-ji Temple in Nara 743 CE Japanese Buddhist Kondo Buddhist Temple Wood largest wooden structure	Daibutsu of Todai-Ji Temple Japanese Sculptures Bronze 70+ feet tall

Ukiyo-e Painting Japanese "pictures of floating world" woodblock paintings	The Great Wave of Kanagawa 1831 Katsushika Hokusai from "36 Views of Mt. Fuji" Woodblock print

Yamato-e Genre Scene Japanese painting on silk	Twin Cult Figures African Wood

Nkisi Nkonde Nail Fetish Figure African Congo Wood	Kota Reliquary Figure 1880 African wood, copper, brass, iron

Aboriginal Cave Art Australian x-ray technique	Aboriginal Dot Art Australia

Maori Totem Pole New Zealand Wood	Easter Island Maoi 400-1700 CE Easter Island Volcanic Stone/ash 800+ statues

Polynesian Tapa Cloth Polynesia barkwood	Sydney Opera House 1959 Jorn Utzon Modern Expressionistic Concrete shells New South Wales, Australia

Aztec god ~ Tlaloc Pre-Columbia Aztec god of rain, lightening, thunder	Aztec god ~ Quetzalcoatl feathered serpent Aztec god Pre-Columbian SA creator god

Aztec god ~ Huitzilopochtli Aztec Pre-Columbia SA Aztec god of war, sun, sacrifice Patron of Tenochtitlan	Aztec god ~ Tezcatlipoca Pre-Columbia The Smoking Mirror Aztec god of

Olmecs Giant Head 1400-400 BCE Pre-Columbian / S. America Olmec / Mexico stone	Pyramid of the Sun 100 - 500 CE Pre-Columbian / S. America Stone Third largest pyramid grp

Mayan Chacmool Pre-Columbian / S. America Mesoamerican stone	Kokopelli South Western USA Native American fertility god

Serpent Mound Ohio mound builders Native American Adena-Hopewell earth	Native American Pueblo Native America Adobe - sundried brick NM AR UT

Native American Kiva Native America stone used for religious rituals	Sioux Tipi Native America animal skin

Native American Totem Poles Native American symbols of family clans Wood	Native American Petroglyphs Native America Cave arts

The Story Teller Native America New Mexico Pottery	Navajo Rug Native America Weaving