Vintage Taxidermy
Taxidermy is considered an art for practitioners and collectors. For others, it’s the unnatural preservation and distortion of life. However one views the subject, it is still oddly compelling to look at.
Posts tagged history
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Object: Plastered human skull
Period: Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Dimensions: H: 15.2cm. W: 16.7cm. L: 22cm.
Region: Palestine
Description: skull of adult male without the mandible (probably removed before deposit); an artificial chin was provided to give the face a natural appearance. Built up in clay and plastered with a smooth surface, coloured brownish-red (iron oxide, probably ochre). The plastering does not extend over the cranial vault, perhaps originally provided with some other material to simulate hair.
The Ashmolean Museum
Posted 6 months ago
An Ancestry of African-Native Americans
Using government documents, author Angela Walton-Raji traced her ancestors to the slaves owned by American Indians
Posted 7 months ago
Matthew Brady was a 19th century photographer, famous for documenting and exposing the conditions of the Civil War and is credited with being the father of photojournalism (and the thief of my heart).
I’d hit it (historically speaking)
Posted 7 months ago
Jaroslava Mucha (1909-1986) was the daughter of renowned Art Nouveau painter/illustrator Alphonse Mucha (who was also a cutie). Much of her life remains to be somewhat of a mystery, but we do know that she inherited her father’s artistic talent and dedicated her life to the conservation of his work. Also, she was quite the beauty!
Posted 7 months ago
Posted 7 months ago
November is Native American Heritage Month
All photos by Edward S. Curtis via the Library of Congress, original captions:
Top: O Che Che, Mohave Indian woman, Qahatika girl, Selawik Woman
Middle: Chaiwa—Tewa, Klamath woman, Cayuse woman
Bottom: Wisham female, Tsawatenok girl, Yaqui girl
Posted 7 months ago
“Turkey in the Straw with Variations” by John Stone
This recording forms part of the WPA California Folk Music Project, which was a New Deal ethnographic field collection of song and sound documenting the music and lives of California immigrants, Dust Bowl refugees, as well as decedents of the men and women that were the first to settle the northern rural region of the state.
On August 5 and 6, 1939, fiddler John Stone (pictured) performed for music collecter Sidney Robertson Cowell in Columbia, Tuolumne County, California.
Source: National Archives
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