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Description: | The `Dance of Death' provides the subject for this macabre ivory okimono. Two monkeys dressed in jackets and trousers frolic on a human skull, one doing a handstand and the other playing a pipe. Next to them sits a skeleton beating a drum. A black stain has been used to add detail to the monkeys' fur, hands and clothes, and their features and the skeleton's headband have been stained red. Meiji Period.
Okimono: 'Dance of Death' consisting of a large skull with two Macaque monkeys and a skeleton dancing around it. The skeleton is beating a drum. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Animals Death Drum and bass Skull Decorative arts Japanese Decorative Art Asia Primates Carving Musical instruments Japan Skeleton | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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