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      And its gesture alone has the blitheness of flight! THE BUTTERFLIES GEORGE LEPAPE 1912

  LOMBARD ORNAMENTS MADE OF GOLD FOIL – DATED AFTER 675 – NATIONAL MUSEUM, BERN   The Lombard art of metalwork is witnessed by these ornamental depictions of gold foil found in a tomb discovered in Stabio: to the left an elegant flower motif; to the right a lively depiction …

  The situation is similar to the ONE PLUS knot, only the roles are inverted: the two bows face each other regularly but there is only one extremity.

  Beads obtained from bone, from seashells, from copper, from seeds and from dried berries were used as jewels and to decorate clothing. They were fastened to the skins or cloth using the 2 thread application technique: the beads, united by a thread, are sewn to the surface by a …

The Mohawk are one of the 5 Iroquois tribes and their name means “People of the flint”. They were native to the Mohawk valley, an area between the north of the state of New York, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario. They had a matriarchal system; the child received the name …