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The Seminoles are a part of the Crek tribe, which broke away in the XVIII century and emigrated to Florida. They entertained relations withwhite people and reached on a canoe the shops in Miamito exchange alligator leathers and feathers with fabric,coffee, tobacco, guns and cartridges. They lived in hutswith palm …

The Haida is a tribe of American Indians, living in the British Columbia (Canada) coast.The Haida members were great whales andsea otters hunters. They form with the neighboring Tlingit and Tsimshiana subgroup of the coastal culture,characterized by matriarchy and a language belonging to the na-den family. Skilled carvers, producingblack slate …

The officer has a large cloak tied at his left shoulder, according to Roman tradition, a short tunic with his wrist decorated by a jewelled chevron and tall jambs on his feet (the wounded foot is covered by a bandage up the leg). St. Ambrose, very tonsured, wears the chasuble …

Bright Star, Jane Campion’s new tender and heartbreaking film debuted in our cinemas in June.  The title is taken form a sonnet of the romantic English poet John Keats, who died in Rome in 1821 were he had gone to spend the winter in an attempt to overcome consumption.  Despite …

THE CONSUL MAGNUS – IVORY DYPTICH TABLET – DATING FROM THE YEAR 518, MILAN MUSEUM OF ART. Roman costumes, along with many of the empires’ institutions were kept under the gothic rule, as shown in this image of the consul Magnus wearing a Toga picta and holding a sudarium to …