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Rare, 1.15" Lichid (Parvilichas) Trilobite - Tinzouline, Morocco

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Perseus and Medusa at The Highline Hotel in New York City.

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Antique crooked knife with carved hand handle.

19th c., likely Iroquois, New York State, iron blade, finely carved wood hilt in the form of a hand, on custom metal stand, 4"h x 8"l (knife), 7"h (total)

Milleabros Auctioneers

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by Sasha Elage

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by yasminemei

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English School, portrait of an eye, late 18th century.

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Persephone

(Votive plaque) Representing Hades and Persephone enthroned. Hades holds a phiale, from Epizephyrian Locri, first half of the 5th century BCE, terracotta Pinax

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio, Calabria Inv. Z 8/31 (x)

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Every time I see these bird pins - I cannot resist posting them, perhaps their history, with its fragility and strength, attracts me again and again. 

Bird pins (brooches) made out of scrap materials by Japanese Americans held in internment camps during World War II.From The Art of Gaman: Arts & Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946 by Delphine Hirasuna (Ten Speed Press, 2005).

Gaman is a Japanese term of Zen Buddhist origin which means “enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity”.

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Photographer Jon Bilous

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African man in Brazil, by Albert Eckhout 

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