EditorialSugpiaq or Alutiiq man of Kodiak Island, Alaska. His earlobes and chin pierced with beads, his face tattooed. From Joseph Billings and Martin Sauer?s An Account of an Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handc...
EditorialHead of a woman with hair separated in the middle. There are small holes in the earlobes for attaching pendants. Perhaps the head comes from an image of Aphrodite.
EditorialKing of the Caroline Islands. Chief with elongated earlobes and body tattoos. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. After an illustration by Jacques Arago from Louis de Fr...
EditorialKadoo, a native of the Caroline Islands, with elongated earlobes, necklace and tattoos. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. After an illustration by Louis Choris in Otto...
EditorialA lohan A lohan A lohan A luohan, A Buddhist monk figure sits with his head raised and an attentive look in the glass-inlaid eyes. His elongated earlobes indicate that it is no ordinary monk. It is a luohan (arhat), a hermit who lives in seclusion in t...
EditorialSugpiaq or Alutiiq man of Kodiak Island, Alaska. His earlobes and chin pierced with beads, his face tattooed. From Joseph Billings and Martin Sauer?s An Account of an Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handc...
EditorialMan of Easter island. Drawn from nature by William Hodges and engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi. Head and sholders frontal portrait of a Polynesian man of Easter Island (Rapanui). He is shown with a feathered headdress, a cloak around his shoulders and ...
EditorialWoman of Easter Island. Drawn from nature by William Hodges and engraved by J. Caldwell. The woman is wearing a headdresse and has empty earlobes stretched by wearing ear ornaments. She wears a necklace. A collection of drawings by A. Buchan, S. Parkin...
EditorialGold and copper alloy spiral with lion-head terminal, Classical, 2nd half of the 5th century B.C., Cypriot, Gold, copper alloy, Other: 1 in. (2.5 cm), Gold and Silver, Gold plated spiral earrings. Spirals with ornate animal-head terminals are frequentl...
EditorialDaoist Immortal, probably Laozi (??), Five Dynasties period (907?60), 10th century, China, High-leaded bronze, H. 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm); W. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm), Sculpture, This sculpture epitomizes the merging of religious and secular imagery in later Ch...
EditorialStanding Buddha, ca. 3rd?4th century, Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara), Schist, H. 20 in. (50.8 cm); W. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm); D. 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm), Sculpture, Such Buddha images were found in great numbers in the public sacred precincts of Gandh...
EditorialSugpiaq or Alutiiq man of Kodiak Island, Alaska. His earlobes and chin pierced with beads, his face tattooed. From Joseph Billings and Martin Sauer?s An Account of an Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handc...
EditorialBotocudo natives of the Amazon, busts and profiles showing plugs in earlobes and lower lip. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836.