Aesop's Fables illustrated by Fulvio Bianconi (1946)

1. The Wolf and the Sheep

2. The Mosquito and the Lion

3. The Fox and the Grapes

4, 5. The Fly

6. The Wild Boar and the Fox

7, 8. The Deer and the Vine

9, 10. The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle

11. The Earthworm and the Fox

12.  The Hen and the Cat

13, 14. The Oxen and the Axle-Trees

Wearing the Cosmos - Slovakia

                                       

1. A young bride in a dance costume - Čajkov.

2. Details of ornamental decorations of bonnets - Veličná - early 20th Century.

3. Detail of the puffed sleeves of a blouse - Benuš - early 20th Century.

4. Weaving detail - Ždiar - early 20th Century.

5. Detail of embroidered festive blouse with puffed sleeves - Rybany - early 20th Century.

6, 7. Details of blouses with embroidered puffed sleeves - Soporna - early 20th Century.

8, 9, 10, 11. Ornamental bands of a woman's costume - around Prievidza - end of 19th Century. 

12. Edging of a band of a woman's costume - Piešťany - early 20th Century.

13. Detail of embroidered blouse with puffed sleeves - Slovakia - early 20th Century.

14. Ornamental decoration of bonnet, detail - Závadka - early 20th Century.

15, 16. Bonnets - Liptovská Lúžna - early 20th Century.

Sleeping Stones - Caves of Maurizio

Maurizio Becherini (1859 - 1932)

In 1918, this barber and tailor decides to live like a hermit in the Forra forest, located a few kilometers away from Gambassi, his Tuscan native village. In a little more than six years (until his death), he builds his own Jerusalem: he puts together footbridges, he sculpts the walls of the cave where he sleeps, he embellishes it with a few statues, some self-made and others acquired, he builds an altar in the relief and a little chapel surrounded by faces, he erects statues of saints (notably those of the Redeemer and of St Peters). He uses concrete, chicken coop wire netting as frame, stones and shells to form the head, buttons for the eyes, large bicycle sprockets for the halos. During the numerous pilgrimages taking place in the 20's, photographs of the place and of the creator were taken and became postcards. After the death of the hermit, some works went missing, while others were damaged by the bad weather and by the forest. Today, we are only left with a few evocative traces destined to disappear.

Indigenous People of Colombia - Shamanism / Worship of the Dead

1. Two Goajiro musicians, one blowing in a deer skull and the other in a flute.

2. Goajiro man sniffing the Yopo (Anadenanthera peregrina).

3. The Goajiro sorcerer isn't afraid by the scolopendra (centipede) poison.

4. The "Kabayana" (shaman) infuses his strenght for a sick.

5. The Kabayana wave his magical leaves bouquet for a sick woman.

6. The fetishes of Kabayana are placed above the altar before which he officiates.

7. Group of Indians surrounding the old priest sorcerer leaning on a stick.

8. Designated by the sorcerer, a woman prepares the "chicha" (a kind of maize beer) which will serve for its intervention with the spirits or "Kay".

9. Páez Indians of Tierra Adentro. Funeral wake.

10. Opogadó, Middle Atrato region. In the absence of a next of kin male, the bones of a dead unearthed at a previous party are wrapped and placed on a branches shelf sheltered under a small roof sheets.

11. A Catio man dig the vault side of the burial pit on the ground.

12. Arhuak village

13. Stone statue. Tierra Adentro region.

14. Prehistoric statue. Tierra Adentro region.