POLYMER DESPAIR

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[enchantedbook]

'Boatman' by Scott Daniel Ellison

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Going to bat for vintage bats.

[ymutate]

A Colima zoomorphic vessel representing a spider. 200 BCE-600 CE, now housed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

[nobrashfestivity]

Forrest Bess, The Spider, 1970

[bi-trans-alliance]

JSTOR article by Catherine Halley

Reveal Digital archive

[nobrashfestivity]

Katsushika Hokusai

[artistsanimals]

Title: Male Aye-Aye Artist: Joseph Wolf Date: 1863 Source: The University of Wisconsin Digital Collection

[pinkbookshelf]

“Imagine” Yoshitaka Amano 1987

[drafthearse]

crab. Moche culture, Peru. 6-7th century. copper.

[thedevilsown]

Lucifero - Mario Rapisardi, 1877

[fluentisonus]

Embroidered Bat From an Imperial Court Robe, China, Qing dynasty, c. 1759-1800

[fruitchouli]

[hannahlockillustration]

Witch’s Familiar. 

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Mammals II. 1972.

1.) Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)

2.) Large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus)

3.) Greater short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx)

4.) Island tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene major)

5.) Straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum)

6.) Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus)

7.) Hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus)

8.) Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi)

9.) Zenker's fruit bat (Scotonycteris zenkeri)

10.) Peters's dwarf epauletted fruit bat (Micropteropus pusillus)

11.) Woermann's bat (Megaloglossus woermanni)

12.) Franquet's epauletted fruit bat (Epomops franqueti)

[boudhabar]

country fair John Hanna illustration 1950s 

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Mammals II. 1972.

1.) New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata)

2.) Molossus sp.

3.) Hairless bat (Cheiromeles torquatus)

4.) Molossus sp.

5.) Black mastiff bat (Molossus rufus)

[antiqueanimals]

Barry Moser. 1996.