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Red snake. Maravilhas da creação. 1879.

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“Various geometric patterns.” Ornamental design for woven fabrics. 1897.

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Vali Myers, House

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Lotteria Game - José Guadalupe Posada, ca. 1910

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“Daphne and Chloe” by Marc Chagall, 1977

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Fig. 30. As the fish sees the angler. Secrets of the salmon. 1922.

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Sagittarius. Chatterbox. 1903. 

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Ruth Kirk, Seri woman, 1959. “María Burgos beginning a delicate facepainting pattern. She used a a slender brush made from her own hair. …Facepaintings for protection of the sun were large, simple designs. Women painted their faces for this purpose particuraly when traveling at sea and in summer when out in the desert” From the book “People of the desert and sea: ethnobotany of the Seri Indians” by Richard Stephen Felger, 1984. https://www.instagram.com/p/CKzV3HtAQ1-/?igshid=156r40c1p6vtc

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Bruce W. Halstead, Bat Ray or Spotted Eagle Ray, Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen) / California Bat Ray, Myliobatis Californicus (Gill), 1959. From the book “Dangerous marine animals”, 1959. https://www.instagram.com/p/CKuIoacAzJ6/?igshid=39epjczyhca6

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Edmund Hillary, Mask used for lama dancing at Thyangboche, 1960.

From the book “High in the cold air; the story of the Himalayan Expedition, led by Sir Edmund Hillary”, 1962.

“20th-century explorer and mountaineer Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the peak of Mount Everest, along with fellow climber Tenzing Norgay. Hillary later participated in expeditions to the South Pole and was among the first to reach the top of Mount Herschel. He also cultivated resources for the people of Nepal. 

Having achieved international fame as the first to climb Mount Everest, Hillary took up exploration. He reached the South Pole by tractor on January 4, 1958, as leader of the New Zealand division of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. He was among the first to scale Mount Herschel in the Antarctic expedition of 1967.

In 1968, Hillary traversed the wild rivers of Nepal on a jetboat. He did the same up the Ganges, from its mouth to its source in the Himalayas, in 1977. In 1985, Hillary and astronaut Neil Armstrong flew a small twin-engine plane to the North Pole, making Hillary the first person to stand at both poles and the summit of Everest, also known as the "third pole.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CKuInFaA6ln/?igshid=ybg1vcra76ni

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Lawrence Blair, Approaching the highlands of the Toraja tribe, 1973.

From the book “Ring of fire” by Lawrence and Lorne Blair, 1988.

“In 1973, Lawrence and Lorne Blair traveled through the most remote, exotic and dangerous places on earth: the islands of Indonesia-nearly 14,000 of them, scattered over one million square miles of ocean. Amid lush tropical forests and unimaginable natural beauty, the brothers hoped to capture on film and in words the ways, beliefs and wisdom of the primitive people who lived there.

Their incredible odyssey began with a 2,500-mile voyage, guided by the notorious Bugi pirates, through the Spice Islands in search of the Greater Bird of Paradise. An entire decade of exploration followed, during which the brothers dwelt naked among the Asmat cannibal tribe of West New Guinea; sought spiritual mysteries in the paradise of Bali: encountered man-eating Komodo dragons; mingled with the mystical Toraja tribe who believe their ancestors descended from the sky in starships; and found the elusive Panan Dyaks, the dream-wandering” forest tribe of Borneo who had been thought no longer to exist.“ https://www.instagram.com/p/CKpII3VABjN/?igshid=1d2s451qtk1fp

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Angular dog toy. American school toys and useful novelties in wood. 1920.

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