The asian section collections final

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