'Entangled Cultures' at the Maxwell Museum takes a global view of fermentation
OPPOSITE, top to bottom, left to right: Making cheese, wine, sauerkraut and sourdough; Roman amphora, Zulu beer strainer, Lele palm wine cup and P’urhépecha bread bowl; scanning electron microscope images of Schizosaccharomyces, Lactobacillus spp., Aspergillus spp. and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Left: Yue Ware celadon glazed ewer, Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhejiang province, China. Right: Stoneware ewer with amber glaze, Liao Dynasty, northern China. Two objects from the collection of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology featured in "Entangled Cultures."
Left: Skyphos (deep drinking cup) with glaux style handles, Late Bronze Age, Greece. Center: Late Geometric Style Oinchoe (pitcher), Greece. Right: Kylix (shallow drinking cup), fourth century, Greece. Three objects from the collection of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology featured in “Entangled Cultures.”
