MOMA – Museu de Arte Metropolitano de Nova Iorque
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – http://www.metmuseum.org/
Nota: Fotos de Arte Rupestre no Níger...
This comb may have been part of the funeral equipment of someone who lived about 5,200 years ago. Parts of the comb's teeth, now missing, can be seen along the bottom edge.
The detailed decoration suggests that the comb belonged to an elite person and was more a ceremonial object than just an instrument to arrange the hair. On both sides of the ivory handle there are profile figures of animals in horizontal rows, a spatial organization familiar from all later Egyptian art.
On the side pictured in this image, elephants appear to be walking on top of giant snakes. In the second row a stork with a snake under its beak leads a giraffe followed by three more storks, and a heron or crane.
A line of dogs or jackals moves across the center row. In the fourth row are cattle or wild bulls, and in the bottom row another line of dogs or perhaps pigs.
Notice how the animals change direction in each row, creating the impression that they are moving in a long parade that twists back and forth. This arrangement of figures is not, as a rule, found in later Egyptian art.
The creatures are all in profile, however, which is the typical point of view for depicting animals in dynastic Egyptian art. Elephants treading on snakes suggest that this part of the scene was symbolic.
The mythologies of many African peoples associate elephants and serpents with the creation of the universe. The uppermost row of this comb may symbolize a creative deity to whom the rest of the animals owe their existence.
Descrição: Finely carved ivory combs and knife handles produced toward the end of Egypt's prehistory demonstrate the high standards Egyptian artists had achieved, even before the Old Kingdom.
This comb may have been part of the funeral equipment of an elite person who lived about 5,200 years ago. Parts of the comb's teeth, now missing, can be seen along the bottom edge.
The detailed decoration suggests that it was a ceremonial object, not just an instrument for arranging the hair. On both sides are figures of animals in horizontal rows, a spatial organization familiar from later Egyptian art.
The animals include elephants and snakes; wading birds and a giraffe; hyenas; cattle; and perhaps boars. Similar arrangements of these creatures on other carved ivory implements suggest that the arrangement and choice of animals were not haphazard.
Elephants treading on snakes suggest that this part of the scene was symbolic. The mythologies of many African peoples associate elephants and serpents with the creation of the universe. The uppermost row of this comb may symbolize a creative deity to whom the rest of the animals owe their existence.
Abaixo, fotografia colorida da comb (lado esquerdo da tela) e, do lado direito, desenhos de ambos os lados do comb.
Comb – Predynastic Period, ca. 3200 B.C., Egyptian Ivory; H.
2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915 (30.8.224)
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Museu Americano de História Natural de Nova Iorque
American Museum of Natural History – http://www.amnh.org/
PÁGINA SOBRE O MUSEU E A EXPEDIÇÃO AO CONGO
Em 1970, uma série de 3 selos postais (Scott: 1387/1389) foi emitida em comemoração ao Centenário do Museu Americano de História Natural. Um dos selos mostra dinossauros, cuja imagem é um detalhe do mural de Rudolph Zallinger, no Yale's Peabody Museum...
Abaixo, 12 the American museum of Natural History's Akeley African Hall postcard series I. The cards are in mint condition and the paper envelope is in good condition, but its corners are a bit worn out. The animals are white-mantled colobus, klipspringer, giraffe, grant gazelle, gerenuk, greater koodoo, okapi, African lion, African elephant, black rhinoceros, gemsbok, bongo, and chimpanzee.
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Title: “The Gathering of Manna”
Museu Nacional de História Natural
National Museum of Natural History – Smithsonian Institution
Há uma ossada de Giraffa camelopardalis: Like most mammals, including you, giraffes have seven neck vertebrae. Then why is a giraffe's neck so much longer than yours? Because each single vertebra is long – often 11 cm (5 in) – longer than most human necks.
Endereço: 10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW – Washington, D.C. 20560-0166
Abaixo, selo emitido em 1946 para comemorar o Centenário do Instituto Smithsonian – para o incremento e a difusão do conhecimento do homem...
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Girafa bebendo água no Museu de História Natural; foto (1459) by Dée, 18/11/06.
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Museu Carnegie de História Natural – Pensilvânia
http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/
O site deste museu de Pittsburg, traz uma sala de jogos (http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/discovery/index.html) onde você pode se divertir com oito brincadeiras educativas criadas pelo pessoal do museu. Com estes jogos você fica sabendo mais sobre insetos e dinossauros.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
One of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
cmnhweb@carnegiemuseums.org – http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/
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Powell-Cotton Museum Birchington Kent
African Savannah and African Forest & Swamp
c1987 – Card Size: 6” x 4” approx.
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This is a very nice real photo postcard featuring “Morse Museum, Warren, N.H.”. Minor wear, no creases. Postally unused. Diamond Defender logo in stampbox area (1920-1940), undivided back.
The Animal Diversity Web at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/
Photo shows a room with several big game mounts (Lion, Rhino, Giraffe, etc.) with two men in the room. I'm not sure if they are stuffed or not... Nice piece of Americana!
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Museu de História Natural do Mundo Selvagem
The Worldwide Museum of Natural History – http://www.wmnh.com/wmhome.htm
O site do Museu traz grande quantidade de fotos de répteis, anfíbios, dinossauros, fósseis de insetos e outras formas de vida primitivas. Lá tem duas girafas-masai!
Outros museus interessantes dos Estados Unidos:
– Museu de Paleontologia da Universidade da Califórnia
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/index.html
Site traz informações sobre paleontologia, fósseis e evolução. O museu distribui
pela Internet programas e bancos de dados desenvolvidos para o estudo de fósseis
e animais pré-históricos. O download é gratuito.
– Museu de História Natural da Flórida
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/
O acervo de ciências do Florida Museum of Natural History inclui mais de 10
milhões de fósseis, além de uma maravilhosa coleção de borboletas e conchas.
O Museu tem salas dedicadas a vários ambientes da Flórida. O site traz uma galeria
de fotos de crocodilos, aves, peixes e fósseis.
– Museu de História Natural do Novo México
http://www.nmmnh-abq.mus.nm.us/nmmnh/NMMNH.html
Um dos mais importantes museus de história natural dos EUA, o museu do Novo
México está localizado na cidade de Albuquerque e abriga uma grande coleção
de fósseis de animais pré-históricos recolhidos no próprio Estado do Novo México
– famoso pela grande quantidade de fósseis lá encontrados. O site do Museu traz
muitas informações sobre dinossauros e mamíferos que habitaram o Novo México,
além de informações sobre o terreno da região os vulcões que um dia ali existiram.
No museu pode ser visto uma rara descoberta, um fóssil de pele de dinossauro
com cerca de 70 milhões de anos.
– Cartão-postal Field Museum of
Natural History, Chicago...
Livro: “The giraffe in history and art” (1928)
Author: Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934
Subject: Giraffe; Animals in art
Publisher: Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History
Possible copyright status: In copyright. Digitized with the permission of the
Chicago Field Museum (dcc@library.uiuc.edu)
Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (http://www.archive.org/)
Description: Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-100). Giraffes – The
Giraffe in Ancient Egypt – Representations of the Giraffe in Africa outside
of Egypt – The Giraffe among Arabs and Persians – The Giraffe in Chinese Records
and Art – The Giraffe in India – The Giraffe among the Ancients – The Giraffe
at Constantinople – The Giraffe during the Middle Ages – The Giraffe in the
Age of the Renaissance – The Giraffe in the Nineteenth Century and After. Fieldiana,
Popular series, Anthropology, was published by Field Museum of Natural History,
Dept. of Anthropology as Leaflet (no. 1-14, 1922-1924) and Anthropology leaflet
(no. 15-34, 1924-1945), and by Chicago Natural History Museum as Anthropology
leaflet (no. 35-36, 1945) and Popular series: Anthropology (no. 37-38, 1948-1959)
Detroit Institute of Arts (Estados Unidos)
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