SAVAGE AMERICA

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  Buddha Amitabha Descending from His Pure Land. Southern Song, late 13th c. 

  Source: metmuseum.org

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  cabinporn:

  Abandoned cabin in Bavarian Alps near Unterwossen, Germany.

  Contributed by Foster Huntington.

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  Friday is our “fun cooking” night so I’m gearing up for making a bunch of chicken, collard greens and cornbread.

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  “A typical malungeon”, Nashville Sunday American August 31, 1890

  Source: Wikipedia

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  thecountryfucker:

  April 1974

  David Falconer

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  nataliakoptseva:

  Botticelli, The crocifissione simbolica,

  Fogg art museum

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  natureconservancy:

  Beast of the Southern Wild.

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  vintagesportspictures:

  New York Giants player safe at home plate in a World Series game against the Washington Senators (1924)

  back in the day, you were allowed to keep your team cardigan on when you went out on the field. glory days.

  Source: vintagesportspictures

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  1903 John Singer Sargent - Marionettes

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  ffactory:

  Gravestone at the Jewish cemetery, Pristina, Kosovo (2009, ph. Ivan Safyan Abram)

  Source: memorialmuseums.org

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  let’s talk fantasy football

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  planeshots:

  “An F-14A Tomcat aircraft of Fighter Squadron 154 (VF-154) flies near the summit of Mount Fuji during deployment in the far east.”

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  cavetocanvas:

  George Catlin, The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony, 1832

  From the Smithsonian American Art Museum:

  The O-kee-pa ceremony, which George Catlin witnessed on his travels along the Upper Missouri in 1832, was the centerpiece of the Mandan religious calendar. The annual enactment of the O-kee-pa was a four-day ritual that included the painful initiation of the most promising young men of the tribe. Catlin documented the ceremony in a series of paintings that were among the most important of his scenes of Native American rituals. The O-kee-pa began with the men sequestered inside a medicine lodge (see 1985.66.504), where the initiates underwent a four-day fast and feats of endurance that required them to be suspended from the roof of the lodge by chords anchored in their chests and shoulders. Outside the lodge, members of the Mandan tribe wearing buffalo robes performed the Bull Dance, to petition the Great Spirit for fertility and abundant bison (see 1985.66.505). The final part of the ceremony, shown here, was called the last race. The men were ushered out of the medicine lodge (“pale and ghastly from abstinence” as Catlin later wrote), and in one last test of their strength and courage, ran (or were dragged by the wrists) around the “Big Canoe,” shown here in the center of the circle. 

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  Virgin and Child. Limoges ca. 1270-1300

  Source: metmuseum.org