Samurai armour Kon kebiki odoshi do-maru yoroi mukashi-gusoku
Japan, Satsuma province; first half of the nineteenth century, Edo Period (1615 – 1867)
Constitutive materials: steel, gilded copper, brass, leather, animal skin, bear pelt, horn, wood, urushi lacquer, silk threads, silk brocade and gilded paper, linen and hemp fabrics

Screen with three panels
Java, Indonesia; late nineteenth – early twentieth century
Constitutive materials: leather, pigments, metal

Pukumani funerary posts
Melville Island, Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory; early twentieth century
Constitutive materials: wood, natural pigments

Mekeo Ceremonial headdress
Papua Nuova Guinea; late nineteenth – early twentieth century
Constitutive materials: feathers, vegetable fibres, wood, shell, bone

Ritual mask of Tierra del Fuego
Yahgan (Yamana) population; Chile, late nineteenth – early twentieth century
Constitutive materials: leather, natural pigments

Figure of the God Tu
Mangareva, Gambier Archipelago, French Polynesia; end eighteenth century
Constitutive materials: wood

Chinese gown for young bride
Asia, China, Han ethnic group, Qing Dynasty, nineteenth century
Constitutive materials: silk, paper, gilded paper, metal threads and wires, synthetic material (imitation jade), artificial pearls (glass, white wax, essence d’orient), vitreous paste

Traditional Chinese Phoenix crown - Diadem for noblewomen
China, seventeenth-nineteenth century, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
Constitutive materials: metals, kingfisher feathers, vitreous paste, glass, mirror, paper, cotton thread, silk thread

Sculpture of the deity Senju Kannon, “Avalokitesvara of the thousand arms”
Japan, late eighteenth – early nineteenth century. Edo Period (1615-1867)
Constitutive materials: wood, metal, urushi lacquer, pigments, vitreous paste

Ivukapi ceremonial pirogue
Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Choiseul Island; early twentieth century
Constitutive materials: wood, vegetable fibre, shell, resin, pigment