EditorialA Central Park staff member peers through binoculars at Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo, in New York on Feb. 9, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Messerschmidt in Windsor Great Park 1940 Pastel, pencil, and watercolour on paper; 400 x 578 mm In 1940 Nash was made an Official War Artist to the Royal Air Force. He made many studies of planes and wrecked enemy aircraft, although he was...
EditorialDance of the Powhatan Native Americans of Carolina within a circle of totem poles. (Based on Captain White's drawing of the Algonquian dance in Virginia.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by A. Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes...
EditorialNative American village on the banks of the Nootka Sound, with totem pole, farms, and fishing boats. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1837.
EditorialLa-doo-ke-a, Buffalo Bull 140, Missouria warrior with his medicine or totem painted on his chest, and Le-shaw-loo-la-le-hoo, Big Elk, chief of the Wolf Pawnee nation. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the No...
EditorialYaroslav Kaynar instructs students at his wife Krystyna Shyshkarova’s dance school, Totem Dance School, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug. 4, 2022. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialInterior of a Wakashan people hut, with men barbecuing fish, women resting on mats, and a totem pole, dried fish in the background. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Comple...
EditorialMarty Bluewater stretches his arms to hug a totem pole recently erected outside his home on Protection Island, about 2.5 miles from the coast of Cape George, Wash., April 28, 2021. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)