Word: pre-columbian
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...along with his smaller private collection-went to the Metropolitan in his son's memory. To this bequest have been added several very choice groups of objects from other sources: the Wunderman collection of Dogon sculpture, ancient Peruvian ceramics from the Nathan Cummings collection, and a number of pre-Columbian objects from the Alice Bache bequest...
...about 1600 could fairly be called primitive. Above all, the word cannot mean crude or inarticulate. Few European medieval ivory carvings are as exquisitely realized, in detail and in the round, as the Met's ivory Bini mask of a Nigerian ruler; and the technical finesse of pre-Columbian gold ornaments, brought back by the conquistadors from South America, astonished Albrecht Dürer in the 16th century as much as it does us today...
Thieves stole two pre-Columbian gold artifacts valued at more than $2000 from the Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology last week, officials disclosed yesterday...
...items--a pre-Columbian gold greave and cuff from Panama--were taken on Wednesday night or Thursday morning by two men who fled the building when they were discovered by a security guard, Garth L. Bawden, assistant director of the Peabody, said...
...issue of the official mag azine China Reconstructs, Maritime Historian Fang Zhongpu purports to solve the puzzle. His prime evidence: a 35-kg (80-lb.) doughnut-shaped stone discovered in 1972 off Point Conception, near Santa Barbara, Calif. Fang says that the stone is a clear sign of a pre-Columbian Chinese visitation, and he cites the testimony of some American scientists to back...