This study focuses on two sets of photographic material from the environment of the Moravian missions on the Labrador Peninsula. Two Czechs stayed there independently in the first decades of the 20th century. While Jiří Jaeger (1895–1975) lived and worked in Labrador between 1914 and 1919 as Vojtěch…

In addition to larger collections of Mapuche artifacts acquired during the prolonged stays of Milan Stuchlík (1932–1980) and Vaclav Šolc (1919–1995) in Araucania, Chile, during the 1960s and 1970s, the Náprstek Museum also houses two smaller collections of Mapuche jewellery. The first four jewels…

The Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures keeps an extensive collection of Japanese woodblock prints ukiyo-e. The collection includes also the prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798–1861), one of the late Edo masters of ukiyo-e, especially famous for his warrior prints musha-e. The…

The present paper focuses on the pottery corpus recovered from strata attributed to pre-Natakamani horizon in the area of kom H and kom A (Typhonium, WBN 200) at Wad Ben Naga. The first part of the paper describes the stratigraphic contexts from which the pottery came and establishes distinction…