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Evening dress ca. 1910

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

A Little Chaos (2014)

The beautiful village of Haworth, where the Brontë sisters lived, Yorkshire, England (by JauntyJane).

1915. #ellisisland #Immigrant #photos #photography #portraits #historical #history #Caribbean #American #African #aboriginal #indigenous (at Ellis Island)

The Cat and the Canary: Adelaide Dickey and Johnny Hughes during their dance routine, Photo by Ira L. Hill, 1916.

Plants, 1984 - Ofer Lellouche (b. 1947)

Lana Adams

The very centre of your heart is where life begins. ~Rumi.

Photograph: ©Alison Lee Cousland.

 bee-folk society

MINI PRINCESS CAKES

Original vs. film

close-up: The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger

Gaston Barbière, Set of 3 glass negatives of the Moon, 1948, France, Signed, Glass negative, 6.5  X  9 cm

Warrior Fashion!

Dahomey’s Warrior Women

Speaking of West Africa, the Dahomey Warrior Women involves a fascinating history that spans nearly 200 years. It was during this time that the elite squad of female warriors fought and died for the border rights and inter-tribal issues in the ancient kingdom of Dahomey.

These women, who outranked their male counterparts, were given far more privileges, including the ability to  come and go from the palaces as they pleased (unlike the men). They were so revered for their warrior prowess, The Smithsonian explains, that men were taught to keep their distance:

“Recruiting women into the Dahomean army was not especially difficult, despite the requirement to climb thorn hedges and risk life and limb in battle. Most West African women lived lives of forced drudgery. Gezo’s female troops lived in his compound and were kept well supplied with tobacco, alcohol and slaves – as many as 50 to each warrior, according to the noted traveler Sir Richard Burton, who visited Dahomey in the 1860s. And “when amazons walked out of the palace,” notes Alpern, “they were preceded by a slave girl carrying a bell. The sound told every male to get out of their path, retire a certain distance, and look the other way.” To even touch these women meant death.”

Yet as colonialist ambitions grew in the region, the Dahomey female warriors eventually grew sparse. Fierce combat missions to crush the independent kingdom eventually succeeded, and in the 1940s, it is said that the last of the female warriors died.

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Happy Downton Day! Here’s Maggie Smith with a lightsaber in period clothing. Enjoy ⩲

Eiffel Tower - Paris - France (by Levent Ali)

Wilson Bentley Gouttes de rosée (Dewdrops), circa 1900

$15-20 COMMISSIONS. DRAWING EYES ONLY, graphite on Bristol board. $15 for one eye, $20 for both. message me for details!!!

[Wait for me!]

Fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen (1899) Illustrations by Charles Robinson Far out at sea the water is as blue as the bluest corn-flower, and as clear as the clearest crystal;

Marie Antoinette + shoes

ART. FABIOLA JEAN-LOUIS REWRITES HISTORY. BY SUPERSELECTED · ART, FABIOLA JEAN-LOUIS, HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, MIXED MEDIA, PHOTOGRAPHY

I got my galaxy bat and other goodies today from @beezeeart ! I named her Luna and yes, I put a little ribbon rose on her ear - because, why not? 

Thank you BeeZeeArt, for all the hard work you’ve done to bring us backers from all over the world smiles with these cuties!

The Massandra Palace, residence of Emperor Alexander III of Russia, Massandra, Crimea