Georg von Welling. Opus mago-cabalisticum et theologicum : vom Uhrsprung und Erzeugung des Saltzes, dessen Natur und Eigenschafft, wie auch dessen Nutz und Gebrauch … (1719)
Athanasius Kircher’s Subterranean World
How we imagined the sun in the 17th century, as illustrated in Athanasius Kircher’s Mundus Subterraneus (1665). I held this book in my hands this same time last year when installing a display of rare and antique books on selenography at College of Charleston.
Kircher (pronounced keersh-er), the German jesuit priest and scholar, is a celebrated polymath much like Leonardo da Vinci. Read about him, other polymaths, and the quest for knowledge in “Know it all,” a wonderful article by Larry Wolff in Boston College Magazine.
Amanda Ross-Ho
Wall Hanging (Swag Inverted), 2007
Acrylic on cut canvas
172.7x243.8 cm
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With cupped hands, girls and women of the BaAka Forest People play the river like a drum, each taking on a different rhythmic pattern that complements the others.
Five Day Walk
White Light Walk
Dry Walk
A Cloudless Walk
A Walk of 33 Days
Walks of Seven Cairns
Walking with the River’s Roar
Tide Walk
Continuum Walk
Walking to a Lunar Eclipse
A Walk in a Green Forest
A Walk Across Ireland
Spring Walk
Walking in a Moving World
Engadine Walk
…
(Source: mythologyofblue)
Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Silueta Series, Iowa), c. 1978
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Ceremonial Objects.
Figure 1. Invitation string, used to call people together for a ceremony; the knots indicate clays to elapse before ceremony commences. Spec. No. 1-10360 (N).
Figure 2. Mourning string tied about neck of mourner at funeral of near relative; must remain there until it wears in two or falls off, or until next annual mourning ceremony. Spec. No. 1-9965 (N).
Figure 3. Paint stick; by charring end and rubbing directly on skin a black design is produced. Length, 133 mm. Spec. No. 1-9982 (N).
Figure 4. Olive shells. (Olivella biplicata) used in making shell ropes and other ornaments. Spec. No. 1-10159 (C).
Figure 5. Pouches made of the everted skin of a hawk’s legs, used as receptacles to store down. Spec. No. 1-10314 (C).
Figure 6. Long tubular bead of shell, worn as nose stick. Spec. No. 1-10195 (C).
Sheila Hick’s first solo gallery exhibition in the United States, Exhibiting Wool—Sheila Hicks, La Piña Gallery, La Jolla, California, 1963
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