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Mondamin (also given as Mon-Daw-Min, The Gift of Corn, and The Origin of Corn) is a tale from the Ojibwe Nation on how the people received corn from the Great Spirit through the vision quest of the young man, Wunzh, and his acts of selflessness...

A face re-creation based on, the Bust of Cleopatra VII (l. c. 69-30 BCE, r. 51-30 BCE), that is a granite bust currently on display in the Gallery of Ancient Egypt at the Royal Ontario Museum. It is believed to have been discovered in Alexandria...

This broken figure of glazed terracotta is one of many old sculptures made of fired clay found since the 1970s around the modern city of Djenné in Mali. It dates from perhaps the 1300-1600s CE. Artists modeled the figures free-handed. They...

Viking storage jars Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2017

This terracotta head was made by an artist from the Inland Niger Delta Region of Mali. It dates from perhaps the 1300-1600s CE. (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto)

Scholars believe that the ancestors of the people who now live in Mali used terracotta figures in rituals. This example is made of terracotta and possibly dates from 1300-1600s CE. It represents a god to whom people prayed and made offerings...

This floor mosaic with the goddess Artemis is made of limestone tesserae and was made in the Eastern Mediterranean, c. 400-500 CE. (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto)

This ancient Egyptian coffin was made of bronze and gilded wood for an ibis. It dates to the Ptolemaic Period (323-30 BCE) and was found at Hermopolis, Egypt. (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto)

Remnants of a Viking cooking pot Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2017

Ojibwa village at Sault Ste. Marie in 1846, oil on canvas by Paul Kane, 1849-1856. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.