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Dartmouth's Hood Musuem similarly tries to offer students and visitors a wide selection of artistic styles, from pre-Columbian art to contemporary work. One thing that sets the Hood apart from other college collections is the fact that it houses both ethnographic and traditional...
Although he says the Princeton museum needs more masterpieces, he calls the Chinese collection "very fine," the old master drawings "very good," and the pre-Columbian collection "superb...
...coca plant is part of the cultural fabric of the northern Andes. Inca nobility chewed the plant, as suggested by the discovery of pre-Columbian statues with bulging cheeks--presumably crammed with coca leaves. The same practice was observed by the explorer Amerigo Vespucci in what is now northern Venezuela during his first voyage around the world...
These classes would cover topics that Fine Arts 13 does not have time to go into, Levine said, ticking off primitive art, pre-Columbian art, and modern art forms such as photography and cinema...
Acquired by Harvard in 1940, Dumbarton Oaks is a research center devoted to the study of Byzantine and Medieval Humanities, Pre-Columbian Art, and Landscape Architecture. Formerly a private estate, the building housed the first meeting of the United Nations...