flosvitae:

sigmar polke

Scanned from Graphis magazine article titled “Ritual Wall and Floor Decoration in India” by Oppi Untracht (*)

almeh:

Young Tibetan woman from Darjeeling, India, 1928

eurasian-shamanism:

Photo of a Buryat shaman from a Russian postcard series from the first decades of the 20th century

eurasian-shamanism:

An elderly Sakha man performing a ritual, which was filmed and photographed by the members of an ethnographic expedition in the mid-70s

He was a close friend and assistant of a shaman in the 20s and the 30s, so he knew a lot of old chants and traditions. 

eurasian-shamanism:

A drawing of a man holding a large Sámi shaman’s drum by Knud Leem from 1767.

The drum on this picture is much bigger than the actual drums, but according to Mihály Hoppál the markings on it can be considered authentic. 

hourgold:

Bashford Dean (October 28, 1867 – December 6, 1928) was an American zoologist, specializing in ichthyology, and at the same time an expert in medieval armor. He is the only person to have held concurrent positions at the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was Honorary Curator of Arms and Armor; the Metropolitan Museum purchased his collection of arms and armor after his death, which his friend Daniel Chester French commemorated with a plaque.

europeanafashion:

Anonymous, day dress in silk with ruching, 1873. Given by the Marchioness of Bristol, Ickworth, Bury St Edmunds. Victoria and Albert Museum. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

europeanafashion:

Yves Klein, L’Arbre, grande éponge bleue, 1962. Centre Pompidou. Image from Loungerie’s photostream on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loungerie/. Rights: image used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en