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Thinking about Fray Bigotón (brother moustache), mascot of the Franciscan Monastery of Cochabamba in Bolivia who was adopted after being found as a stray

Scanned from the book 写真集 極限の民族 ― ニューギニア高地人・カナダ・エスキモー・アラビア遊牧民; 1968; photos by Takane Fujiki

Frida Kahlo - My Dress Hangs There (1933)

Bharwad women from Saurashtra. Photo by Pranlal Patel. Scanned from the book Living Traditions of India: Crafts of Gujarat; 1985; Jasleen Dhamija

Women making a large wall together. Scanned from the book Desert Village, Life & Crafts; Gujarat, Rajasthan; 1985; Hiroko Iwatate

Camel belts are braided with natural goat hair. Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Scanned from the book Desert Village, Life & Crafts; Gujarat, Rajasthan; 1985; Hiroko Iwatate

Frida Kahlo, 1936

𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙖 𝙆𝙖𝙝𝙡𝙤 Mexico City, c. 1935.

Ouargla, Algeria, 1952. Henriette Grindat

these are so informative!

Coptic textile from Egypt, 4th or 5th century AD/CE, depicting a female dancer. Now in the Louvre.

April 2026: A wave of emotion swept through the final Eucharist presided over by Pope Leo XIV at the stadium in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. At the end of the mass, Pope Leo sang the Marian antiphon “Regina Caeli” in thanksgiving before an image of Our Lady of Bisila, depicted carrying the Child Jesus on her back. (Photo: Vatican Media)

Jesus Christ, the Great Physician, have Mercy upon us (icons by Andrei Bodko)

Bab’Aziz (2005)