ANIMAL NECKLACES.

Weird & Wild. Soft feathers, luminous beetles and muted cocoons as necklaces. via Peabody Essex Museum

ANNEMARIE SCHWARZENBACH.

Mongolian burial tower.
Thysville Africa
Dancing men in the jungle between Bumba and Aketi (Route Royale).
Imam Reza.
Turkestan. Bazaar: carpets from Daulatabad.
““Hazrat Ali” – tomb of the 2nd prophet.

Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist, traveler and photographer. In July 1939 she and ethnologist Ella Maillart drove from Switzerland to Afganistan via Istanbul in a small Ford car. [...]

1978 VOLCE.

In Macedonia there are looms in the rooms. See the youth, the sheep, the garments, the bread making, the hanging of lanterns, the hanging of portraits. Vibrant Volce!via UMass Amherst

GARDEN PARTIES.

Elizabeth & Solita are back! with the kitties & plenty of gardens and parties to go ’round. I am revisiting the files of Elizabeth Jenks Clark and enjoying her at-home outdoor lifestyle. via Yale University Beinecke Rare Book Library
 

INNU MAKES.

Beadwork, museum photography (baby blue!) and natural to man made objects—a collection of my favorite things! Innu and their ancestors have resided on a large portion of Labrador and eastern Quebec for over two thousand years. According to Innus the world is an island created by wolverine and mink after a great flood.
via Tipatshimuna

S. AFRICA.

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

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