HORSE NATION.

Yesterday I took a break from work and walked south in the warm sunshine to the Smithsonian National Museum of Native Americans. See the show, A Song for the Horse Nation on view until July 7. It’s glorious! Animals & bead work equal love.    

BAUM-.

Ziemlich Bäume! via Mertz Library Digital Collections

TRAVEL PICS.

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, Nauruvia Galen Frysinger      

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 [...]

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

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