#liberty cap

[illustratus]

[aimeekb]

Looking towards the sunrise on the Half Dome trail, Yosemite National Park🇺🇸

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Cornelis Kruseman (Dutch, 1797-1857) Savoyards and Italians, 1840

[awakeningthevioletswithin]

Who Puts the Fun In Fungi?...We Do!...We Do!

Watercolor On Cotton Paper

2022, 41"x 30"

Liberty Cap Mushrooms, Psilocybe semilanceata

Kyanite and Blue Apatite

[kussentjesmos]

Liberty Caps!

[mountainfieldguide]

Liberty Cap (California)

Liberty Cap Photo: Liberty Cap – a granite dome in Yosemite National Park which lies at the extreme northwestern margin of Little Yosemite Valley, adjacent to the north of Nevada Fall (California, United States) by Romana Kontowiczova. Nestled in the heart of Yosemite National Park, Liberty Cap stands as a testament to nature’s awe-inspiring artistry. This granite monolith, rising proudly above…

[ellisdee161]

Good Cultures

[clove-pinks]

It's phrygian cap in a landslide for this poll, probably to no one's surprise (especially since Smurf hat was not an option).

OH, BUT WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH PERFORMATIVE FREEDOM SIGNIFIERS!!

The "liberty cap" was a popular symbol in the early United States! Possibly not with a cocarde tricolore on it (although one of the images in my poll was used in an article titled "The Rise and Fall of the Liberty Cap"). For whatever reason, in US usage it's frequently on a pole:

Captain Marryat of all people mocked it ("The only idea we have of the cap of liberty is, the bonnet rouge of the French... so [Americans] have a cap of the own, which (begging their pardon) looks more like a fool's cap than any thing else.")

You will also see our [cooler, female] national personification, Columbia, wearing the liberty cap/phrygian cap. I was pleased to find a toque or beanie version for sale, I'm tempted to buy one (hoping and praying some deranged modern militia doesn't remember this exists).

Honorable mention from the reblogs:

IMPORTANT FLASH POLL

[omgitsacuban]

Carteles, Vol. XVII. No. 8 La Habana, Cuba Abril 26, 1931

[ares857]

internet find

[elixir]

Found some Liberty Caps(Psilocybe Semilanceata) or the "Witches Hat" while skulking around a cemetery today. 🍄

[vertigoartgore]

1980's Captain America Vol.1 #250 cover by John Byrne, Joe Rubinstein & Irv Watanabe.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Cornelis Kruseman (Dutch, 1797-1857) The Legend, n.d. Teylers Museum

[awakeningthevioletswithin]

Family Travels

Watercolor On Artboard

2022, 9"x 12"

Liberty Cap Mushrooms, Psilocybe semilanceata

Kyanite

[hazyla]

Whaaa I made an mcd aph design against my better judgement

[janesurlife]

Charles what are you doing