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[Korean children with American and Korean flags]

from Cornell University Library

  • designinggene said:
    These are all boys, including the teacher. Confucian tradition was to not cut hair until Westernization arrived late 19th century.
  • Cornell University Library said:
    designinggene thank you for all this information. We will forward your information to the curator.

Man in studio, Cairns, 1890s

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Cockatoos are an important animal in the Australian Indigenous people’s mythology, acknowledged for their important part in the cycle of birth, death and rebirth of plants in the landscape. For the Indigenous people and more broadly, Cockatoos represent illumination – the sentinel guard and guide through darkness; they speak of commitment to partnerships and to the importance of the safety of one’s group; and they represent comedic relief with the spark that mischief and curiosity bring to life! Source: worldbirds.com/cockatoo-symbolism/
  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    The 'nose bone ceremony' marks an Aboriginal boy's transition to manhood. The ritual begins with the painting of sacred symbols on the body, followed by piercing the septum. The nose is pierced with the bone of an animal or bird associated with a tribe's Dreaming and the ancestral creator of their sacred site. These nose bones were originally worn by both men and woman, today they are usually only worn by the older generation on ceremonial occasions. Source: www.aboriginalartuk.com/post/sacred-places-marrapinti#:~:....
  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Pearl shells were in use from at least 1818. In 1818 Freycinet records the following in Shark Bay, Western Australia. “An old man painted with stripes of various colors and distinguished from the rest by a shell hanging from his girdle”. They are an original and unique form of Aboriginal Art. Source: www.aboriginal-bark-paintings.com/aboriginal-pearl-shell/

Men gather around the Florida Seal to honor Dr. Martin Luther King - Tallahassee

from Florida Memory

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