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Bronze Vase from the Philippines
collected by Henry and George Peabody in the early 1930's and originally given to the Ventura Museum
Anthropology
Acheulian hand ax (Plaster cast)
from France about 600,000 years old
Anthropology
Images of mental patients
from the Szondi Test, 1940's
Psychology
Fossilized nautiloid shell
Paleontology collection, Geology
A bronze vase, hand-ax, and IQ tests all help us to learn more about other people, whether they lived 100,000 years ago or in our own time. Art (the vase), tools (the ax), and tests (the IQ test), although distinctly separate in their forms, serve similar informative functions by illuminating physical and mental aspects of historical and contemporary human life.
