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Detail of Primavera, 1482, by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)

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من كتاب أطلس الفلسفة

‏موقع الإنسان بحسب بوفيلوس 1509

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Frank Eugene :: Four Sisters, 1900s. | src The Met

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Dorothy Wilding :: Dorothy Dickson, 1920s | src NPG

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Head, 1912, Amedeo Modigliani

Medium: limestone

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#travel : South_India07_0541 by CarlosLeonTejero http://ift.tt/112m2X2

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Grandmothers at Maternity Centre ‘Fundación Vicente Ferrer’, Anantapur in India. (via justpictures)

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The native Maori people of New Zealand have tattooed their faces for centuries. They had a complex warrior culture before the arrival of Europeans, and suffered under early colonialism, but have experienced a cultural revival since the 60′s.

The marks are called moko, and are etched with chisels instead of needles to leave grooves along with the ink. The true form is sacred, unique to each person, and distinct from European tattoos that mimic that traditional style.

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It’s worth noting that the cultural revival happened under (as in the US and Canada) LITERAL criminalization.

There was a long time (I don’t have the date of any repeals, but y'all can check this) when traditional tattoos and body art were illegal. There’s also the cultural impact of colonization, which makes the facial moko an even bigger fuck you to settler-descended people.

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Inuit woman nursing two babies, Alaska. Ca. 1903-1908

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Kawakanih Yawalapatani, 9, from Brazil traveled 31 hours by boat, bus, and car to get to photographer Gregg Segal’s studio in Brasilia to take part in his project exploring the diets of kids around the world. Yawalapatani mainly eats fish, cassava, porridge, fruit, and nuts — a local diet that is steeped in history and rich in nutrients. “It takes five minutes to catch dinner,” Kawakanih told Segal. “When you’re hungry, you just go to the river with your net.” She’s one of the last Indigenous speakers of the Arawaki language where she lives in Xingu National Park, a protected Indigenous zone in the Amazon Rainforest that has come under threat since the election of President Jair Bolsonaro. “When she was born, her mother was determined to keep her language from going extinct, so [Yawalapatani] didn’t interact with anyone except a handful of people who were native speakers of the language,” Segal told Global Citizen. “She also speaks her father’s native language and Portuguese.” For his new book, “Daily Bread,” Segal traveled to nine countries and asked families to help their kids record their eating habits over the course of a week. His team then invited the families to a studio, bought all the food that was described in the food journals, and arranged a photo shoot. Read our interview with Segal at this link to learn more more about “Daily Bread.”⠀ ⠀ (📷: Gregg Segal)