Detail: This is an exploration of the diverse range of animal representations in a recent installation in our Islamic and South Asian art galleries, including their symbolic meanings and cultural significance. On view in the Islamic art gallery (2550) are a 16th-century Persian carpet depicting hunting animals, a selection of ceramic and metal sculptural objects, often serving functional purposes, from 13th- and 19th-century Iran, and contemporary glass birds by Turkish artist Felekşan Onar. The display in the South Asian art gallery (2590) includes a devotional painting showing animal mounts of Hindu deities, 18th-19th century, a textile featuring Hindu mythical animals in an ogival lattice design from the Islamic world, c. 1700, and a Gujarati embroidery with rainbow-colored birds, 15th century.