Handle fragment (?)

Handle fragment (?)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The surface of this ivory fragment, depicting a masklike human face at its center, is also enlivened with finely engraved circles, ovoid shapes, and lines. It may have been part of a pail or bag handle, or a plaque attached to a skin boat.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.