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Approx. 25,000 objects
Largely ethnographic
Focus on Buddhist material
Representative collections of everyday life
Large amount of textiles
Large amount of prints, paintings, and scrolls
Very large collection of coins
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Manuscripts
Sculpture
Textiles
Ritual Implements
Paintings
Musical Instruments
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Mostly Japanese Material
Installed in museum when it first opened in 1899
Over 800 objects
Includes: textiles, ritual implements, statuary, architectural elements, divination tools, and charms.
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Over 5000 coins -Mostly from China, Korea, Japan
Sommerville Gem collection
Amulets
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Manuscripts and Rubbings
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Ainu - Representative
Naga Hills - Representative
Thai – Tools, baskets, art, buddhist
Indian – Textiles, kalighat paintings
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China – Textiles
Minority textiles - Exposition Universelle (1900)
Buddhist Banners - Sommerville
Indian Textiles – clothes, wall hangings
Southeast Asia – clothes, buddhist
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Japanese War Prints
Japanese propaganda prints
Chinese folk prints
Divination and charms
Kalighat paintings
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Approx 800 instruments
From all over Asia:
Japan: 250
China: 165
India: 121
Thailand: 70
Tibet: 28
Nepal: 19
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Games – collected by Stewart Culin
Baskets – Civic Center
Ordos bronzes
Weapons and Armor
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Stewart Culin Games collection and Korean paintings by Gisan.
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Many more objects in the collection – ceramics, bronzes, jade, netsuke, snuff bottles
Please feel free to ask me more questions about what we have in the collection.
See also:
Arts of Asia
Loans catalog
Website: penn.museum
Rotunda cases and Buddhism Exhibit