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Buddha Amitabha Descending from His Pure Land. Southern Song,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:01:43 -0400

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

cabinporn: Abandoned cabin in Bavarian Alps near Unterwossen,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:46:42 -0400

cabinporn:

Abandoned cabin in Bavarian Alps near Unterwossen, Germany.

Contributed by Foster Huntington.

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

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:44:49 -0400

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

“A typical malungeon”, Nashville Sunday American...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:52:03 -0400

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

thecountryfucker: April 1974 David Falconer

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:27:24 -0400

thecountryfucker:

April 1974

David Falconer

nataliakoptseva: Botticelli, The crocifissione simbolica, Fogg...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:06:14 -0400

nataliakoptseva:

Botticelli, The crocifissione simbolica,

Fogg art museum

natureconservancy: Beast of the Southern Wild.

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:32:42 -0400

natureconservancy:

Beast of the Southern Wild.

vintagesportspictures: New York Giants player safe at home...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:15:00 -0400

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.

1903 John Singer Sargent - Marionettes

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:14:00 -0400

1903 John Singer Sargent - Marionettes

ffactory: Gravestone at the Jewish cemetery, Pristina, Kosovo...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:02:38 -0400

ffactory:

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

let’s talk fantasy football

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:02:30 -0400

let’s talk fantasy football

planeshots: “An F-14A Tomcat aircraft of Fighter Squadron 154...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:10:58 -0400

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.”

cavetocanvas: George Catlin, The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:10:16 -0400

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.