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  Western Arizona (Fort Apache Reserve) Apache Woman carrying a baby in a cradle on her back, taken around 1907. You can see that her hair is unusually short:  she had probably cut it a few months earlier in mourning the death of a close relative. The cradle is made …

    MAESTRO DEL BIGALLO – MIRACLE FOR THE DEMON POSSESSED MAN (PART OF THE ST. ZENOBI FIGURE, FROM 13th CENTURY) – MUSEO DELL’OPERA DEL DUOMO, FLORENCE   In its soft linearity, the clothing of the second half of the 13th century obtains simple results yet perfect elegance. The long …

  MASTER OF THE MAGDALENE – DETAIL OF THE ANNUNCIATION – SECOND HALF OF THE XIII CENTURY – MUSEE DES ARTS DECORATIFS, PARIS   Lovely silk cloths, embroidered or woven with ornamental motifs, enrich the female gowns which appear very sober in their long-limbed garb. However, the monocolor mantel worn …

  Gathered during the 1830s by itinerant painter George Catlin, this marvelous leather garment presents designs of different periods and various decorative techniques. Besides the painted patters on the edges and on the porcupine spines woven atop the sleeve, a band of pony beads on the front and back employs …

  Jerry Lewis is almost better known as a fund for muscular dystrophy than as a comic actor. Mention the pesticide Alar and people think of Meryl Streep. As the highly spokeswoman for Mothers and Others for Pesticide Limits, she created such a public stir that the manufacturers took Alar …