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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
Manuscripts
Sculpture
Textiles
Ritual Implements
Paintings
Musical Instruments
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.
Over 5000 coins -Mostly from China, Korea, Japan
Sommerville Gem collection
Amulets
Manuscripts and Rubbings
Ainu - Representative
Naga Hills - Representative
Thai – Tools, baskets, art, buddhist
Indian – Textiles, kalighat paintings
China – Textiles
Minority textiles - Exposition Universelle (1900)
Buddhist Banners - Sommerville
Indian Textiles – clothes, wall hangings
Southeast Asia – clothes, buddhist
Japanese War Prints
Japanese propaganda prints
Chinese folk prints
Divination and charms
Kalighat paintings
Approx 800 instruments
From all over Asia:
Japan: 250
China: 165
India: 121
Thailand: 70
Tibet: 28
Nepal: 19
Games – collected by Stewart Culin
Baskets – Civic Center
Ordos bronzes
Weapons and Armor
Stewart Culin Games collection and Korean paintings by Gisan.
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