While their compositional techniques vary, Western and non-Western artistic traditions have certain subjects—like animals—in common. In Miniature of a Bird and Scene of Lovers with an Attendant, Persian artist Riza Abbasi creates a narrative illustration full of birds, rabbits, leopards, and wolves visible amongst the foliage. The animals unify the painting’s composition by echoing the central panel’s garden theme. A Senufo sculptor from Ivory Coast carved a bird with an elongated beak. This sculpture was most likely used during a religious ceremony. In Duck Swimming in Water, Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai balances the composition with abstract waves, which he reduces to diagonal gray stripes. Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest coast create towering house posts from cedar trees with symmetrical, graphic figures painted in bright, flat colors. The carved animal figures represent supernatural creatures and family ancestors.