Editorial(Left): Portrait of a seated Baka girl wearing a leaf pubic covering. She has been photographed against a sheet marked with metric measurements for recording height. (Right): Portrait of a seated Baka girl wearing a leaf covering front and rear. Die ob...
Editorial(Left) A Zande woman standing in the entrance to a homestead, wearing coiled metal arm and ankle rings and leaf pubic covering on a string. (Right) A Zande woman wearing leg and arm rings and a woven grass hat. Next to her is a carved stool with round...
EditorialIvory figurine Hittite, from Anatolia, 14th-13th century BCE. The proportions of the figure, lacking curves, show her youth. The pubic triangle was originally inlaid and other parts of the ivory may have been covered in precious metal. The funcion of t...
EditorialIvory figure of a woman with incised features, from Badari, Egypt, Predynastic Period, c4000 BC. The figure appears to be crudely made, but the carving is precise and the limbs are well formed and smoothly finished. The emphasis on the eyes, breasts, h...
EditorialTerracotta statuette of woman with bird face, Late Cypriot II, ca. 1450?1200 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; hand-made, H. 8 3/16 in. (20.80 cm), Terracottas, This figurine is typical of Cypriot coroplastic art of the Late Cypriot II and III periods. The ty...
EditorialTerracotta statuette of woman with bird face, Late Cypriot II, ca. 1450?1200 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta, H. 6 3/16 in. (15.7 cm), Terracottas, This figurine is typical of Cypriot coroplastic art of the Late Cypriot II and III periods. The type, with the...
EditorialIvory figurine Hittite, from Anatolia, 14th-13th century BCE. The proportions of the figure, lacking curves, show her youth. The pubic triangle was originally inlaid and other parts of the ivory may have been covered in precious metal. The funcion of t...
Editorial" Violin" figure, Cycladic from the island of Amorgos in the Aegean, around 2.800 BCE. Breasts, arms and the pubic triangle makes the relationship to the human body more obvious. GR 1889.5-21.2.
EditorialIvory figure of a woman with incised features, from Badari, Egypt, Predynastic Period, c4000 BC. The figure appears to be crudely made, but the carving is precise and the limbs are well formed and smoothly finished. The emphasis on the eyes, breasts, h...