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The smooth exterior of an adobe mosque is decorated with sticks of palm that jut out all over its surface. The mosque has a large trapezoidal shape with high walls that are topped by a series of cone-shaped protrusions.

Great Mosque of Djenné

Material Objects

A man on stilts leads a parade of people dressed in white and holding colorful flags. He wears a red-striped jumpsuit and a hat.

Bread and Puppet Theater

Material Objects

A monumental steel spider has eight slender, misshapen, and curving legs. The spider's body is suspended high in the air, and an egg sac is visible beneath the body. The sculpture is photographed beside a modern building at nighttime.

Maman

Material Objects

Opening Virgin (Vierge Ouvrante)

Shira Brisman

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Opening Virgin (Vierge Ouvrante)

Material Objects

A light-skinned figure of a young boy wears a shiny blue robe, brown stole, and wide-brimmed hat. He is seated in a gold throne with an ornate canopy carved with a lamb insignia. The child holds a basket and staff.

Traveling Image of the Holy Child of Atocha (Santo Niño de Atocha), Plateros, Mexico

Jennifer Scheper Hughes and Daisy Vargas

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A light-skinned figure of a young boy wears a shiny blue robe, brown stole, and wide-brimmed hat. He is seated in a gold throne with an ornate canopy carved with a lamb insignia. The child holds a basket and staff.

Traveling Image of the Holy Child of Atocha

Material Objects

Two half-naked female figures gather around a brown ox in a dark, painterly image. Thick brushstrokes also render fruit-bearing trees in the background.

Arthur B. Davies, Sacramental Trees

Emily Gephart

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Two half-naked female figures gather around a brown ox in a dark, painterly image. Thick brushstrokes also render fruit-bearing trees in the background.

Sacramental Trees

Material Objects

In a grayscale photo, a female stone torso with carved jewelry protrudes and swoops off a building. There is a jagged stone space where the figure's head should be.

Drain-spout in the Form of a Flying Celestial Figure

Tamara I. Sears

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A colorful but weathered ink painting shows a pale-skinned, many-armed figure sitting cross-legged at its center. A large halo of hands surrounds him, each with a single eye. Accompanying figures lie outside the halo against a blue background.

Thousand-armed and Thousand-eyed Avalokiteshvara

Michelle C. Wang

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A stone plinth holds a sculptural group of two stone, male figures. One concerned-looking robed man crouches down to adjust the cloths on the head of a supine male figure. The lying man has a bare chest and a pained expression.

The Vincent and Mary Markham Monument

Annette Stott

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