EditorialPhotograph - 'A Store', Egypt, Captain Edward Albert McKenna, World War I, 1914-1915, One of 139 photographs in an album from World War I likely to have been taken by Captain Edward Albert McKenna. The photographs include the 7th Battalion training in ...
EditorialBowl, with a depiction or 'A Midnight Modern Conversation' by William Hogarth (1697-1764) Bowl, multi-colored painted with a performance after 'A Midnight Modern Conversation' by William Hogarth, hemispherical bowl on a stand ring, from painted porcela...
EditorialTwo children with a bottle of liquor and a pipe for a shed, alcoholic drinks (foodstuffs in a glass bottle or jar, bottled), pipe, tobacco, Europe, anonymous, c. 1850 - c. 1880, cardboard, photographic paper, albumen print, h 85 mm ? w 170 mm.
EditorialKak iz khleba sdelat' sitets? [How do you make cotton from grain?] 'This is very simple. A peasant can make anything of bread, anything he needs. A peasant should only give out all spare bread at a collection point for the fixed price. A worker then wi...
EditorialFlying Panel Metate, 1st?5th century, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, Stone, H.10 x W. 15 x D. 24 in. (25.4 x 38.1 x 61 cm), Stone-Implements, Metates, tablelike objects of stone used in ancient Mesoamerica for the grinding of foodstuffs such as corn, ...
EditorialCeremonial Metate, 4th?8th century, Costa Rica, Guanacaste-Nicoya, Stone, H. 20 1/8 x W. 10 in. (51.2 x 25.4 cm), Stone-Implements, Even today, stone metates in the Americas are used to grind maize and other foodstuffs. Certain ancient rituals must hav...
EditorialCeremonial Metate, 10th?11th century, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, Stone, H. 9 x Diam.14 3/4 in. (22.9 x 37.5 cm), Stone-Implements, Decorated metates carved of volcanic stone originated in the utilitarian forms that were used for grinding foodstuff...