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Ancient silver coin from Cyrene depicting a stalk of Silphium, an ancient abortifacient.
Southwest Museum archaeologist Anne Watkins holds an enormous obsidian blade, found by the Wilder brothers (Karok Indians) after it was unearthed by an earthquake in northern California, purchased by Gen. Charles Reeve and donated by him to the museum. It measures 33 1/2 inches long, 6 inches wide, and less than an inch and a half wide. Such blades were used ceremonially by the Karok until historic times. From The Masterkey, September 1939.
Chili Crops: Flood affected farmers dry chili crops on high ground in the Umerkot District of Pakistan's Sindh Province via csmonitor. #Photography #Chili_Crops #Pakistan #csmonitor
allegedly these are ancient Sri Lankan coins depicting the goddess Lakshmi
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Akha people depicted in a Burmese manuscript in the early 1900s
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because fairytales weren't creepy enough, www.evilsunday.co... came along
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Not all women in the 1920s were flappers. This California-based Chicana gunslinger in pants, button down shirt, and tie is Maria Alatorre (ca. 1925). I love photos like this because they’re visual evidence of the wide range of femininities that have always existed. Credit: Los Angeles Public Library
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