SHOE OF HENRY VI KING OF SICILY – DATING PRIOR TO 1197 (FROM A PAINTING OF “THE GIFT SEPULCHRES OF THE DUOMO OF PALERMO RECOGNIZED AND ILLUSTRATED”; FRANCESCO DANIELE, NAPLES 1794).   The shoe of Henry VI (who died in 1197), which is kept in the king’s sepulchral sarcophagus …

  Wife of a Miwok Chief of the Coast, 1833 Near BodegaBaya high-ranking woman offer guests acorn mush out of a ceremonial basket decorated with beads made of sea buck-thorn pits and decorated with red feathers taken from the heads of dozens of woodpeckers. Her soft feather mantel, which was …

  Moglie di un Capo Miwok della Costa, 1833 Nei pressi di Bodega Bay una donna di alto rango offre agli ospiti pappa di ghianda in un canestro cerimoniale, decorato con perline di gusci di olivella e con penne rosse tratte dalle teste di decine di picchi. Il suo morbido …

  MODEL 2078 EVENING GOWN BY MADELEINE VIONNET SUMMER 1924   Embossed silver lamé, decorated on the sides with a knot design made of gold lamé and bordered by silk and gold thread.

  During the period Hollywood’s major studios were producing all the important pictures. In the mid-50s a new breed of production company loomed on the scene – the independent. Overnight a new notion of shooting on location rather than in the studio took shape. One of these independent companies was …