September - November 1994

These ceramic figurines portraying people and animals were placed in tombs to accompany the deceased to the afterworld. Some of these figurines have been in the museum’s collection since 1982, but were too fragile to be exhibited. They were recently conserved by the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa, Ontario. The ceramics are gifts from Dr. Walter C. Koerner and from Mrs. Helen Heaney in memory of Helen Nordham Battle.