Klaire LockheartHere’s some additional photographic evidence to document me geeking out over ancient Egyptian art.
Courtesy of the Field Museum, Christina Thompson and Klaire Lockheart in the Egypt collections in storage, Photo by Aaron C Packard.
I was excited to see some of the original pigments from the Old Kingdom!
Courtesy of the Field Museum, Klaire Lockheart and Emily Teeter viewing the chapel of Netjer-user (cat. no. 24450.), Photo by Aaron C Packard.
I had an incredible time at the Field Museum! Everyone I met was amazing, and I was thrilled to see the Egyptian art and artifacts!
Courtesy of the Field Museum, Christina Thompson, Klaire Lockheart, and Emily Teeter within the chapel of Netjer-user (cat. no. 24450.), Photo by Aaron C Packard.
Charring Auh#fieldmuseum #jade Field Museum From the #Hanperiod (206 B.C.E. –220 C.E.) jade was obtained from the oasis region of Khotan on the Silk Route. The oasis lies about 5000 miles from the areas where jade was first worked in the Hongshan
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#fieldmuseum Field Museum he xiangu figure len celhu #Daoist practitioners studied how to achieve physical and spiritual immortality. In later dynasties, the #EightImmortals, semi-historical figures, were worshipped as Daoist deities. All eight were associated with tales describing how they achieved immorta
PixelJonesComing next year to Chicago Field Museum: A special traveling exhibit of #Pokémon models side by side with extinct lifeforms from the #FieldMuseum’s collection—including scientific casts of Field Museum dinosaurs like SUE the T. rex and the Chicago Archaeopteryx next to Fossil Pokémon like Tyrantrum and Archeops.
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Like #iatmul #fieldmuseum @fieldmuseum Amongst the Iatmul (and also the #Sawos) on the central #Sepikriver, the skulls of important, deceased men where covered with reddish clay, a face was newly modelled out of this clay, and decorated with the patterns that the deceased had also worn as face-painting for ceremonies and feasts when he was alive. These r