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Two engraved whale teeth are photographed together vertically. The tooth on the left is engraved with a two-mast ship sailing in front of a landscape, with a border of palm fronds above the scene. The tooth on the right features a cloaked woman in profile Sperm Whale Teeth in Circulation: A Case Study in Material Economics Richard J. Callahan, Jr. Article
Gold buddha standing Buddha statue photographed against a cardboard background eBay Buddha Alexandra Kaloyanides Article
Buddha Material Objects
Colonial Materiality: Silver’s Alchemy of Trauma and Salvation Helen Hills Article
African Slave Family, Surinam, 1770s Material Objects
Tobacco holder modeled in the shape of a young African man’s head Material Objects
Tobacco Dealer's Trade Cards Material Objects
Gaitskell's Neat Tobacco at Fountain Stairs Rotherhith Wall; Capt Smith . . . taking King of Palpanegh prisoner Material Objects
Trade token issued by James Grimes depicting an indigenous person smoking a pipe on the obverse and initials on the reverse Material Objects
Trade token depicting an indigenous person smoking and holding a tobacco leaf on the obverse and initials on the reverse Material Objects
Florentine Codex Material Objects
image Locking Eyes with the Sun: Perception, Landscape, and the Fame of Greenstone in a Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Narrative Allison Caplan Article