Taking a night off from homework tonight getting cuddles from this precious little thing!
Spending the afternoon reading various anthropological articles and writing summaries. And as usual my fur baby is keeping me company 😺😻
Working on the final draft of my English essay and watching some old X-Files. I know I probably shouldn't watch TV while I do my homewaork....but my brain will die of boredom if I dont have some sort of entertainment going on.
This is how my desk looks on a light homework load.
And that is my other fur baby Fetch
Cotton with brocade border - Jodhpur 20th Century
Mehrangarh Museum Trust
Men chose their turbans carefully - a wrapped headdress is said to be akin to an unspoken language. Each social group in Marwar has a distinctive style of tying the long cloth and might add accents with ornaments that say more about who they are. Men also wear turbans for specific seasons, ceremonies, or moods. The wave pattern seen here is worn during the monsoon season, when the coming of rain is celebrated. In the harsh summer months, a turban is a shield against the blazing heat. It can also be a form of protection in battle. Many rulers wear turbans that are like crowns, loaded with jewels, which denote their rank in court society.
Masks of the Animal Kingdon Dance
Performances featuring masked dancers are the birthright of particular families and derive from long-ago auspicious encounters between human ancestors and supernatural beings, in the guise of animals or unique spirits. The “Dance of the animal kingdom” represents a heroine ancestor’s adventures among the animal beings who in turn bestow the dance and masks upon her for use by her family and subsequent generations.
Drum with skull painting - 1991
Animal hide, acrylic, wood, bone
Art by: Susan Point - Canadian, Musqueam
The First People
Red cedar, yellow cedar
Art by: Susan Point - Musqueam band
The homelands of the Musqueam of the Fraser River Delta are punctuated by meandering pathways as the Fraser reaches the Strait of Georgia. The faces within the tendrils represent the hereditary bloodlines that connect the families in the region, and the waterways that were lifelines yielding food resources, sustaining the Delta people from time immemorial.
Food bowl: Frigate bird with shark - 20th century
wood, mother-of-pearl shell
Melanesian, Eastern Solomon
Men in the Solomon Islands consider fishing or skipjack bonito (a member of the tuna family) to be a sacred endeavor. The fishermen watch for frigate birds feeding off of schools of smaller bait fish and observe the bonito that follow, in a season that lasts from November to April. Sharks swarm this whirlpool of frothy activity and devour what they need to survive. This vessel features two predatory creatures merging together to suggest the cycle of consumption, with the humans who eventually feast on the bowl’s contents completing the cycle.
Pyramidion of Hori - 1350 B.C
Limestone, pigment
Egyptian, Abu Tig. New Kingdom
18th Dynasty