A stag head with branching antlers and an ornamented piece displayed in a museum case.

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Arrangement of ten horses in the Pazyryk burial mound, Hermitage collection

A 2,300-year-old ceremonial horse headdress found on the skeleton of a horse in the frozen tombs of Pazyryk in Siberia. Eight of the ten horses in the Pazyryk kurgan were arranged in two rows with their heads turned to the east, while two horses in the western

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Illustration from the book "Shamanic Beliefs of the Non-Russian Peoples of Eastern Siberia", 1890

Round engraving labelled DECEMBER: a pig carcass is butchered on a table by a barn, with a village, a tower, a windmill on a hill and a goat sign above.

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Engraving “December” by Adriaen Collaert after Hans Bol, Antwerp, 1580s

December. Engraving by Adriaen Collaert after a drawing by Hans Bol, Antwerp, 1580s.

Red wooden plaque with the carved inscription “Долой чадру” (Down with the veil) on a dark wooden door.

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Wooden 1920s propaganda placard from Central Asia calling for an end to the veil

Down with the Veil! Wooden placard, 1920s, Central Asia

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A touching, warm exhibition has opened at the Space 1618 gallery in Staromonetny Lane: Saule Madiyeva presents a series of conceptual works in felt

A touching, warm exhibition has opened at the Space 1618 gallery in Staromonetny Lane: Saule Madiyeva presents a series of conceptual works in felt. On the one hand, the artist turns to traditional techniques and uses the favourite material of the nomadic world; on the other, she attempts a personal,

Archaeology · Moscow · Nature · Ethnography

Tiles with crowned cats found at excavations on Tverskaya and Nikolskaya streets in Moscow

In the Seventeenth Century Muscovites Loved Cats So Much That They Depicted Them Wearing Crowns. During work at two archaeological sites in Moscow, on Tverskaya Street and on the grounds of the Chizhevsky Compound on Nikolskaya Street, clay tiles were discovered bearing the image of a cat in a crown.

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The Amish, who usually take no part in American political life, have this time not stood aside

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Third supermoon of the year on 17 October and traditional names of the Moon

A Moon such as tonight's was called by the American Indians the Moon of Dying Grass. The European tradition, for its part, has kept the name of the Hunter's Moon, since by its light game could be spotted with ease even at night. This is the

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Taino and Kalinago chair on show at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris

A chair by craftsmen of the Antilles. A work of art by the Taíno and Kalinago peoples, who inhabited the Caribbean basin before the arrival of Columbus. Together with other examples of this culture, the chair is on show at the exhibition “Taínos and Kalinagos of the Antilles” in one

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Hell among the Indians, Naraka, lies at the bottom of the earth, but souls are condemned to remain there only for a time, depending on their guilt, after which they may leave it in the shape of "unclean" beasts

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“The Hindus call the bull father, and the cow mother

“The Hindus call the bull father, and the cow mother. On their dung they bake bread and cook their dishes.” Dmitry Butorin. Illustration to Afanasy Nikitin’s Journey Beyond Three Seas. 1960

Drawing of a young woman with long hair, her body covered in floral tattoos, holding a spear, with hills and a village behind her.

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Young Pict woman covered in tattoos, drawing by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, c. 1585

A young daughter of the Picts, covered in tattoos. The girl wears nothing but a belt with a sword and a necklace. Drawing by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, c. 1585