d Culture

She halts – frightened leveret – Believing to have heard a wing’s beat: Dialogues, hues, evening fragrances Each time by her enamoured. GEORGE LEPAPE 1912

  DETAIL OF THE CRUCIFIXION – FRESCO DATED AFTER 741 – CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA ANTIQUA, ROME The short male tunic, which is still worn in Italy and particularly in Rome, is purely byzantine in nature due to its ornaments: a wide band of embroidery which adorns the central part …

  Here as well, we have a bow tie characterized by only one bow and a single extremity, which are however grouped on the same side of the knot.

Essentially a nomad people, settled in the lands of present day New Mexico and Arizona, they lived in shelters of conical branches to which a “rumada” was sometimes added: four straight poles which supported a roof of branches. They used clothing made of deerskin and wore their hair long and …

  The woven basket hats where the women’s doing, but the painted designs applied on them where done by the men. The tasks were divided. The men went hunting and fishing, built the houses, carved the large canoes and performed all the engraving and painting tasks. The women occupied themselves …