Feathered Hanging, Peru, 7th–16th century

Miniature dress, Peru, 7th–16th century

Miniature dress, Peru, 7th–16th century

Double Spout Bottle, Peru, 2nd–4th century

Floral collar from Tutankhamun’s Embalming Cache, Egypt, 1336–1327 B.C.

Moses & Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of Dinteville Family, France, 1537

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Yesterday I had a pleasure of browsing the galleries at the wonderfully chill & air-conditioned, Metropolitan Museum of Art. I took a bunch of badly lit, reflective, low quality iphone pics of my favorites. Didn’t need to bother because apparently most everything displayed at the Met is also available on their website! Now you can see what I loved the best as high quality, archival photographs—from IRL to your computer screen.

via the Met Collection Database

notes : Earlier in the day BS & I had an impromptu mtg with Weird Friends at Salties . Later we rowed boats on Central Park pond/lake. It was a perfect Sunday.

Weaving, beading, dancing, haircuts and more! Yesterday at Housing Works Bookstore I stumbled upon this wonder – Crafts and the arts of living in the Cameroon. Published in 1982 and curiously funded by Mobil Oil Cameroon. Photographs by Harri Peccinotti.

Retired scientist Galen Frysinger has traveled the world and seven seas.
(172 independent countries plus 91 dependencies) Get lost in his intricate
and dense photo archives. Wow.
above: Greenland, Brazil, Greenland, Libya, Easter Island, Nauru
via Galen Frysinger

Rural life in South Africa, 1946-1947. Photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee. I’m reading Martha Quest by Doris Lessing which takes place on South African farmlands on the cusp of WWII. Maybe it looked something like this?
via Smithsonian Photography Initiative

Yahhhh!! Typographic and colorful adornment. These beaded necklaces radiate Positivity! The Zulu people of South Africa created these wonders. I am curious to learn the necklaces say. Are they names? Political statements? Prayers?

via University of Florida – Africana Collection

Exuberant portraits of Malians by Malick Sidibé.
Layers of patterns, textiles and people—so beautiful!

Malick Sidibé documented an important period of West African history
with great commitment, enthusiasm, and insight, focusing on Malian youth
in the 1950s and 60s. His portraits and documentary photography captured the
unique atmosphere and vitality of an African capital in a period of great euphoria.

via Openvisor Thanks to August Heffner !