I took a nose dive into Yale’s newly opened digital image vault, the first Ivy league university to allow public access to their files. Lots of stuffs to peruse, from fine arts masterpieces to anthropological digs.

1. Gold cast object, jewelry, Early Classic Period 700-1000, JavaneseIndonesian
2. Textile remnant, 6th century AD, Egyptian Coptic
3. Red ceramic necklace, probably a tourist item, Post Classic, Michoacan-Mexico
4. Misc. necklace, Africa
5. Mirror, c.-1927

Egyptian beads & textile fragment. The necklaces are from dynasties a million years past but look so contemporary. How do they do it?!
Vivid collection via Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art

It’s a week late, but here’s to Polish Palm Sunday! (Happy Easter, btw) Poland has adopted pre-Christian tradtion of carrying lavishly decorated straws, flowers and ribbons for Palm Sunday parades.

Palm Sunday processions in the Kurpie region of Poland have their roots In earlier pagan traditions. Kurpie palmy are made by tightly weaving greens and dried or paper flowers around pussy wlilow, birch, or other fresh cut branches in a style which recalls the traditional decoration of May Poles.

Thanks to WEIRD FRIENDS who found lots of colorful palmowy images.

Haunting. The loom that once was.
Photographs by Tad Nichols in Glen Canyon Utah 1958.
via Northern Arizona University – Cline Library

Glowing rocks of the southwest desert USA. via Polman Minerals

Beautiful feathers, patterns, textures, colors.
Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until Sept 1.

via britta