A History of the World Objects
During the trip to the UK last year, I made a very brief visit to the British Museum to see a six of the History of World in 100 Objects. All of these are very creative objects -- the details in the reindeer using stone tools, the ornamentation and similarity in patterns across the backgrounds. I see lots of quilting patterns in those details. The first on my list was a pair of swimming reindeer carved from mammoth tusks during the last ice age. The next was to see the Benin Plaques . The museum has a wonderful collection of these. The one in the History of the world shows the King of Benin in Nigeria with some Europeans in the background. TVO showed a series last year about the Lost Kingdoms of Africa and one of them was about the Benin Plaques. The third was the Lewis Chessmen carved from Walrus Ivory and Whale bones. The fourth was the Chinese Bronze Bells called a Bo Bell. The fifth was ...