#berberism

[algerianity]

Sepia-tinted photos from over 50 years ago show striking facial tattoos of women from indigenous populations in Algeria. But documentation of these women has faded like the aged photographs. In Algeria today the actual practice of facial tattooing is disappearing along with the older generation. One particular indigenous group losing this cultural marker is the Chaouia of the Aurès Mountains in northeastern Algeria.

This project from Pulitzer Center student fellow Yasmin Bendaas captures incredible portraits and stories from Chaouia women when investigates the origins and disappearance of tattooing, especially with the advent of literacy and Islam's spread. Bendaas' work is available on Amazon for purchase 🇩🇿🇩🇿

— Norfafrica

[mad-pride]

Those dpd flags have a cultural symbol on them....it looks like the amazigh people....

Did you mean the BPD flags? That's hand of Eris (⯰), which is a planetary symbol (common to all cultures), different from yaz letter (ⵣ), though both are similar.

[bobemajses]

Amazigh Jewish women in Morocco, 1930s.

[celestialmacros]

What do you think she's announcing from her little lilac podium?

Unequal Cellophane Bee (Colletes inaequalis)

April 9, 2024

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[vintagehomecollection]

The author's own home office is filled with light and is as interesting and as comfortable as the rest of the house.

The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998

[thattunisiandude]

Portraits of Tunisian Jewish women (postcards ) - 1880's

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Anita Berber (Eerie Tales, Lucrezia Borgia, Different from the Others)— So much of her film work has been lost (fuck you, Hitler) and she died in 1928. But was she hot as hell? HELL YEAH! She could rock up in drag [link] Rock out in her swag [link] She was wild and wonderful, openly bisexual and apparently her favourite drug was "a bowl filled with chloroform and ether that she’d stir with a white rose and eat the petals." This article covers how amazing she was: [link] Every paragraph of it is 24 carat gold - SHE WAS AMAZING. Otto Dix painted her portrait (and it is glorious): [link] She was utterly gorgeous: [link]

Miriam Cooper (Evangeline)—some of the prettiest eyes in film

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Miriam Cooper propaganda:

Anita Berber propaganda:

[analogmartt]

Bso in the Sahara Desert, shot on medium format Kodak Portra 160. December 2023.

X I Instagram

[weirdlookindog]

Der Graf von Cagliostro (1920) - Lost film

Joseph Fenneker poster artwork

[mapsontheweb]

Berber speakers in the French protectorate of Morocco, 1936.

by atlas_cartography

[occvltswim]

A Berber woman making Argan Oil

[bobemajses]

Amazigh Jewish goldsmith from Tahala in the Anti-Atlas, Morocco, 1958.

[tervaneula]

Some lizardposting because I Love Her

(She still doesn't have a name rip, none of the TES names I've considered have felt 100% right – Boethiah sounds cool in any accent and fits her sassy personality ((and could be shortened to Beau)) but I still don't know ;_;)

[fattributes]

Ethiopian Red Lentil Stew and Collard Greens on Homemade Injera

[thattunisiandude]

Two boys selling dates (fruit) - Tunis . 1930

[les-larmes-d-eros]

Série Skin Motherhood Woman, par Berber Theunissen