The Litvin family - Jewish farmers from Hailar, Manchuria, Chinese Inner Mongolia region

Khalkha Headdress from Outer Mongolia dated to the 19th Century on display at the McManuc Art Gallery and Museum in Dundee, Scotland

This headdress would have been commissioned from a silversmith for a Khalkha woman when she was to be married. It was presented to her on her wedding day and she was expected to wear it throughout her married life.

The Khalkha people were a diaspora group in Mongolia and in the early 20th century became one of the leading groups of the Mongolian Independence Movement. They campaigned for independence from the People's Republic of China. The Khalkha also found their lands taken by Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union. Khalkha author Byambyn Rinchen translated and published Khalkha legal codes and folklore during the 1940's. He was a direct descendent of Genghis Khan through his mothers family.

Headpieces such as this from Mongolia were collected by European travellers and ambassadors and then donated to museums. Such fashion would go onto to inspire costume designers on Star Wars for Queen Amidala.

Photographs taken by myself 2024

Mongolian horse archer; pulled from Instagram from a repost account that did not include the og source

It's hilarious to me how Colossal Biosciences wants to be movie-version John Hammond but are 100% book-version John Hammond. In the Jurassic Park novel, it's very clear: John Hammond is a con artist who gives people an illusion, not the truth. He knew from the beginning that what he was making weren't dinosaurs, but he didn't care because he had a story to sell. He wasn't just "filling in gaps" with the frog dna, his scientists were basically making things up from whole cloth and he had no pretence about it- but he also knew what the public wanted to believe.

Case in point: https://time.com/7274542/colossal-dire-wolf/

These are not dire wolves. These are GMO gray wolves. Dire wolves aren't even in the same genus as gray wolves, and we know this from genetics.

What Colossal is doing is scamming the public. They want you to believe that they can pull off miracles. They can't. It's the flea circus where everything is mechanised, but because you want to believe, you "see" the fleas. They might be good at genetic modification and they might be good at hyping themselves up, but they haven't de-extincted the dire wolf. They didn't activate mammoth genes in a mouse. They are lying to you and they're going to keep doing it. Don't believe the hype.

Drawing alot of yearning lately

Tip jar

Elementary ➤ 1.03 - "Child Predator"

i love this because it's like. why did paleolithic peoples paint the hunt. perhaps to celebrate and honour brave deeds that kept the community alive. perhaps to bring luck for future hunts. perhaps to instruct those who came after how to slay the beast. perhaps to remind us we can: that the mammoth is not unkillable.

this graffiti, too, serves those purposes!

Kinda recontextualizes the hunt for mammoths though

Maybe it wasn't for food

Maybe mammoths are really fucking racist

Only 30 feet? That's practically seasonal! The ice over Manhattan in the last ice age was 2,000 feet high, and that was the edge of the ice sheet! Even glaciers are more than 30 feet thick at their end.

I was coming to look and see if someone had asked this -- I'm quite curious how a 30ft ice sheet works! I would expect it to quite possibly be seasonal, and for any meaningful terrain feature to risk poking out through it. I'm not a geologist though, so I'm curious what OP's thoughts on the 30ft depth are, and if it's the result of some interesting worldbuilding or just an arbitrary depth. (Which is legitimate, IMO.)

At the point of the story, what remains of Alberta has been buried under a permeant glacier for several thousand years. Additionally, the glacier is largely frozen hydrochloric acid. The atmosphere of the earth is hyperoxygenated. The polar ice caps have melted and refrozen at least twice. Global weather patterns are entirely different.

Kuttamuwa Stele, Neo-Hittite, ca. 735 BCE

The mortuary stele of Kuttamuwa, an official of Panamuwa II of Sam’al. Written in Samali Aramaic, the 800 pound inscribed stele is notable for its reference to the “soul” being apart from the physical body and the idea that the soul lived on in the stele dedicated to the deceased person, providing valuable information about the beliefs of the people in the region during the Iron Age period in which this inscription was produced.

It was discovered by the Neubauer Expedition in a private shrine in the Neo-Hittite city of Zincirli in July 2008.

This feels like a safe space to share that I really hate it in movies when they’re, like, crossing this wretched fuckoff gorge by a rope bridge and some jagoff cuts the bridge like - I do NOT want to even think about how much work and material and handcraft that was!! And then people had to install it as well!! Imagine how many commutes you’re fucking up! Stop destroying rope bridges assholes

For anyone who has no idea what @elodieunderglass means...

oh my god that's amazing! these are the people and the materials and this is the work that's getting messed up, when heathens whack a handmade bridge down!!

Hippie fashion, for iconic as it is, is incredibly hard to pin down. There were no major designers, and it wasn't appearing on the pages of Vogue or Harper's Bazaar. Extant hippie gear from the 1960s is incredibly rare. There's very little of it in museums, and when it appears for sale, it's often at a very high price.

I've been agonizing for weeks about how to define it.

Fashion is, as always, a reflection of societal values, and this is especially true for hippie fashion. At its center was rejection, as loudly and colorfully as possible, of the neat, tidy, and heavily gendered aesthetic of the 1950s.

This is why men with long hair was such an essential part of the hippie look. In the conservative American mindset, a man having short hair was a part of his proud, rigid masculinity, and anything longer than a standard military crew cut was both effeminate and unkempt.

Hippies were anti-materialists, hence the fact that they didn't have any major designers (although many designers took inspiration from hippies later on). Valuing hand-crafts, a lot of clothing was hand-made, or came from small artisan boutiques. This is where "vintage clothing" started being a thing, as they recycled clothes from the 1930s and 40s to fit their style.

Much inspiration came from Eastern cultures, especially those along the so-called "Hippie Trail" that ran from Europe, Turkey, through the middle east, to Afghanistan and Nepal, and then to Thailand.

Because they valued nature and natural things, they wore natural fibers and natural materials, often including buckskin and leather. Combining the love of the natural with the idea of free love, nudity was a big thing

And, of course, underlying all of this, was psychedelics. It all combined to make the hippie aesthetic.

The truth is, it's not the clothes, it's how you wear it. A lot of hippie style was just jeans and t-shirts worn with long hair and a disdain for The Man.

Hippie fashion is extremely fun and worth taking a good look at.

Check out this exhibit that was put on by San Francisco's Bellevue Art Musum

This is the funniest headline because they used his name like we all know him😭

representing well

It is so disingenuous when supermarkets have "grown by: Farmer X" on their packaging because it's like, I'll be looking at a pack of strawberries grown by farmer x and he'll actually be the managing director of a fruit farm that employs 2,000 people as pickers!

It feels like the mental idea of what a "farmer" is hasn't caught up with the economic reality of the past 200 years, where people hear "farmer" and think of small, rural, poor, honest (and specifically ethnically and culturally native) subsistance living, and not essentially a factory owner where the factory is made of dirt and manufactures strawberries, staffed by hundreds of cheap immigrant labourers.

Labourers who, it seems, are rarely ever *referred to* as 'farmers', despite being the ones who do the farming, as opposed to being the ones who own the farm.

My favorite Chinese meme is just this ninja throwing a brick. I have no idea what it means but I use it all the time

This is the kind of messaging you really want to be seeing from the global hegemon

linking it directly because, yeah, this is real.

They actually said "retaliate" huh.

driving in the city is all about using your maximum amount of brain power to avoid a vehicular manslaughter charge while seemingly everyone else around you has made it their holy mission to get hit by your car