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This list of music museums offers a guide to museums worldwide that specialize in the domain of music. These institutions are dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of music-related history, including the lives and works of prominent musicians, the evolution and variety of musical instruments, and other aspects of the world of music.
Children's Museum of Cleveland: Goodrich–Kirtland Park: Children's Cleveland Grays Armory Museum: Downtown Cleveland: Military History of the Cleveland Grays, a private military company which was founded in 1837, and the military heritage of Greater Cleveland Cleveland History Center: University Circle Multiple
Princeton University Art Museum: Princeton, New Jersey: United States 1 tunjo [14] Denver Art Museum: Denver, Colorado: United States 1 ceramic jar [15] American Museum of Natural History: New York City United States 1 tunjo [16] Hunt Museum: Limerick: Ireland: 1 tunjo [17] The Israel Museum: Jerusalem: Israel: 1 pectoral [18] British Museum ...
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The beads were integrated in Native American jewelry using various beadwork techniques. Trade beads were also used by early Europeans to purchase African resources, [2] including slaves in the African slave trade. Aggry beads are a particular type of decorated glass bead from Ghana. The practice continued until the early twentieth century.
The Museo de América is an art, archaeology, and ethnography museum in Madrid, Spain, devoted to the whole of the Americas from the Paleolithic period to the present day. It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Culture. Gallery formerly arranged to recall the Cabinet of Natural History that preceded the ...
Quipu in the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio.. Quipu (/ ˈ k iː p uː / KEE-poo), also spelled khipu, are recording devices fashioned from knotted cords.They were historically used by various cultures in the central Andes of South America, most prominently by the Inca Empire.
Once the terminal bead is touched, the prayer beads are reversed and counted in the opposite direction. It is held in a particular manner using the middle finger and thumb only, deliberately avoiding the use of the index finger – considering it to be inauspiciousness. The user also covers the prayer beads with a cloth called bag called "gomukha."