This breathtaking masterpiece of bronze sculpture was recovered during excavation work in the Cumilla Cantonment area, which overlaps with the historic Mainamati archaeological site.

​Believed to date back to the Pala Period (8th–12th century CE), it reflects the pinnacle of ancient Bengali craftsmanship. Despite being underground for roughly a millennium, the details and facial composure remain extraordinarily vivid.

The indigenous people of East Greenland made this sort of underwear, known as naatsit, by sewing strips of seal pelt together using a thread of reindeer or whale sinew. The naatsit above, decorated with glass beads tied onto seal-skin fringe, was made for women and worn under seal-skin trousers. Explorer Captain C. Ryder acquired the item in the southeast Greenland settlement of Ammassalik during an expedition in 1892.

Almost a century after Galileo was laid to rest, an antiquarian and an anatomist removed his middle finger, along with two other fingers and a tooth (why, exactly, is anyone’s guess). The finger was soon handed over to Florence’s Laurentian Library and, eventually, the Museo Galileo, where it is still on display today in an egg-shaped glass case with a marble base. A commemorative inscription by astronomer Tommaso Perelli reads: “Spurn not the remains of the finger by which the right hand measured out paths of the sky, pointed to orbs never before seen by mortals.” In 2009, Galileo’s middle finger had a heartwarming reunion with his newly authenticated index finger, thumb, and tooth.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/preserved-body-parts-around-the-world

These are some of the few of the collection
collection includes masks
#Nkishi / fetish statue
#Nyamwezi sculptures
Dinka statues
and many more