The way ancient Egyptians made flint sickle inserts changed over time. The earliest sickle inserts date to the Neolithic period, with many examples from the Fayum and Merimda Beni Salama (Caton-Thompson and Gardner 1934; Eiwanger 1984, 1988, 1992)| www.metmuseum.org
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Inscription: No artist’s inscription, signature or seal Colophon Liu Tongxun 劉統勲 (1698–1773), Liu Lun 劉綸 (1711–1773), Yu Minzhong 于敏中 (1714–1779), 10 columns in standard script, dated 1760: 頭等侍衛呼爾查巴圖魯占音保 赤手長鯨，陣俘衛諾。賊級纍纍，注之一槊。捧檄闢展，達巴裏坤。馬不刷鬛，還報軍門。 乾隆庚辰春臣劉統勲、臣劉綸、臣于敏中奉勑恭賛。 Collector's seal Qing emperor Qianlong 清帝...| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Lithography is a planographic printmaking process in which a design is drawn onto a flat stone (or prepared metal plate, usually zinc or aluminum) and affixed by means of a chemical reaction.| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Contemporary Native artists and historians respond to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Euro-American representations of Indigenous subjects in the American Wing's collection.| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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