Amulet Pendant With Three Arches
Gilt silver, coral beads,and velvet
4 1/2 × 2 5/8 × 1/4 in. (11.4 × 6.7 × 0.6 cm)
Gift of Labelle Prussin, Ph.D. 1973
African Art
2011.23.10

Audio: Student: Daniella Sanchez

Amulet Pendant With Three Arches

Artist, attributed to: Berlin Painter, Greek, Attic, ca. 500–ca. 460 B.C.
Nolan Amphora showing Athena and Hermes
Terracotta, red-figure with added red and dilute glaze
13 1/16 × 7 11/16 in. (33.2 × 19.5 cm) Mouth: 5 13/16 in. (14.8 cm) Foot: 3 9/16 in. (9 cm)
Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard
Ancient Art
1913.133

Audio by: Bursary Student, Isaí Meléndez

Nolan Amphora showing Athena and Hermes

Issuer: Central Reserve Bank of China, Chinese (Japanese)
100 Yuan Note from the Central Reserve Bank of China
Ink on paper
89 × 180 mm, 0.10 g (8.9 × 18 cm)
Yale University Art Gallery, Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001
Numismatics

2001.87.103794

100 Yuan Note from the Central Reserve Bank of China

Welcome to the Asian collections of the Yale University Art Gallery! I’m Kirie Stromberg, Postdoctoral Associate at the Archaia Program for the Study of Global Antiquity. I’m an archaeologist and art historian of early East Asia, and I am so excited that you’ve decided to come on this journey with us.

The tour you are about to take was created entirely by undergraduates and masters’ students, under the guidance of both me and Dr. Denise Leidy, the Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art and head of the Department of Asian Art. These students are enrolled in a course I’ve been lucky enough to teach this semester, titled “The Archaeology of East Asia.” In this class, we’ve built a foundation for understanding the lifeways and visual traditions of cultures that lived across regions within the boundaries of modern-day China, Japan, and Korea. Of course, the national borders that are drawn on maps today did not exist in the ancient world, so students have explored connections across early East Asia, focused on objects from about 3000 B.C.E. in China through the first millennium C.E. in the Japanese archipelago. One theme to note across all the objects in this tour is that they would likely have first been found in mortuary contexts and reflect the importance of funerary ritual across the diverse cultures of early East Asia.

The students you’ll hear from come from a wide variety of majors, from history to molecular biophysics and biochemistry. Their observations will bring you not only information but also their unique perspectives on the objects you see. I hope you’ll learn a thing or two, but most importantly, I hope you’ll have as much fun as we have in this class!

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Bracelet
Silver and cloisonné
3 × 2 3/4 × 3 in. (7.6 × 7 × 7.6 cm)
Gift of Labelle Prussin, Ph.D. 1973
African Art
2010.124.11

Daniella Sanchez, Yale College Class of 2025 and currently a Bartels Intern in the Gallery’s Department of African Art.

Bracelet

Mint: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
5 Dollars from Philadelphia
Gold
8.35 g, 6:00, 21.5 mm
Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Millicent Todd Bingham
Numismatics
2001.87.3438

5 Dollars from Philadelphia

Maker: Daniel Christian Fueter, American, born Switzerland, 1720–1785
Whistle and Bells for Mary Duane North
Gold and coral
L. 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm), 2 oz., 6 dwt. (71 gm)
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, James R. Graham, Walter M. Jeffords, B.A. 1905, and Mrs. Paul Moore
American Decorative Arts

1942.91

Whistle and Bells for Mary Duane North

Headdress Surmounted by Four Women's Faces and Mami Wata
Wood with paint, fabric, feathers, mirror, yarn, paper, and metal wire
54 1/2 × 20 × 19 in. (138.43 × 50.8 × 48.26 cm)
Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
African Art
2006.51.568 / 78946


Headdress Surmounted by Four Women's Faces and Mami Wata

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