GROUP OF MILITIA – FRESCO DATED END OF IX CENTURY – CHURCH OF SAINT MARY IN SECUNDICERIO (ALREADY KNOWN AS THE TEMPLE OF THE FORTUNA VIRILE), ROME Interesting depiction of a warrior’s garb. The militiaman to the right holds a round shield and has a helmet with a neck …

  Micmac boxes were made of birch. Exclusive to the Micmac of the Atlantic provinces is the insertion of decorative painted porcupine spines into the birch bark, applied primarily to boxes with lids. Bark and quills were applied slightly wet, a small hole was made in the bark into which …

  DRESS Summer 1937 Model 3170   MADELEINE VIONNET Atelier Petit Black transparent organdie grill pattern joined by corners with seams and pleats, gently flared skirt.

  THE GLOBE HISTORY/5 Throughout the 1940s human interest features were regularly published in both LIFE and LOOK and Globe became a prime supplier of this kind of story. Globe was represented in the very first issue of LIFE with a layout of a man-eating tiger devouring an Indian. Is …

  THE MOST COMMONLY USED NATURAL COLORS/3 Also from India and Southeast Asia came the yellow-orange tones of turmeric and safflower. Another source of color was the mollusk murex, from witch the ancient Mediterranean peoples, in particular the Phoenicians, extracted the most precious and costly of dyes (given the large …