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Eroro

Description: The instrument is made of a pierced metal and tapered square body decorated with a face on the side. At the top is a handle that straddles the top of the piece.
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Date: 1800/1899~
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Tsii'edo'a'tl

Description: The tubular musical instrument is strung from end to end with two strings and played with a bow. It is decorated with triangular red and black shapes.
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Date: 1800/1899~
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Arched Harp

Description: The harp has a base and a long spindle rising at an angle from the base. The strings are stretched from leather covering the base to the spindle.
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Date: 1800/1899~
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Monk by the Sea

Description: Painting depicting a monk by the sea.
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Date: 1809
Creator: Caspar David Friedrich
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

[Bowles's Geographical Game of the World]

Description: Game board for "Bowles’s Geographical Game of the World" printed with a map of the world. It was meant to be played with multiple players, spinning a teetotum (spinning dice) to move their marker around the map, and to teach players basic facts about different parts of the world.
Date: [1803..1821]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Mitts

Description: Mitts of ecru knitted silk. Below wrist-length. Thin openwork band along upper edge of fingerless section and of upper edge of the half-thumb. From base of palm to lower edge are bands of openwork borders, and a wide band of "checkerboard" openwork.
Date: 1800/1920
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

[Etching and engraving of the burial shrine of Odeschalco]

Description: Etching and engraving of the Italian noble family Odeschalcos burial shrine printed circa 1800. The print is attributed to designer Leopoldo Buzi and printmaker Giovannia Acquaroni. The print show a line etching of the shrine with Latin text on its front at the top of a stone platform with stairs flanked by two statues of Roman muses. The image is paired with descriptive Italian text below the printed image.
Date: 1800
Creator: Buzi, Leopoldo & Acquaroni, Giovannia
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Spectacles

Description: Pair of folding glasses. Silver mounted glasses with small oval lenses. Earpieces fold via a swivel rivet and terminate in tear-drop-shaped loop. No marks. Loose lens wrapped with spectacles. Measurements: 4 1/2" wide x 1" high; earpieces 6" long extended, 4" long folded.
Date: 1801/1850
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Chopine

Description: Chopines/pattens with wood soles, leather uppers, and cast iron supports. Laces missing. Would have been worn over other footwear for protection.
Date: 1800/1809
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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