Kayapo
March 7th, 2010Mannequin costumes
March 7th, 2010Costumes with eye things
March 7th, 2010Waiwai man wearing traditional dance costume.
Dance costume with mask from Liberia, Africa
Empty costumes
March 7th, 2010Pomo bear disguise (N. America)
Blackfoot dance bustle (N. America)
Tupi costume (Bolivia)
Yuki dance outfit (N. America)
Miwok dance costume (N. America)
Eyebrow painting of North African women
January 27th, 2010All from Harquus: North African Women’s Traditional Body Art Volume 2: Paint (pdf) by Catherine Cartwright-Jones.
“A person with thick, black eyebrows can see better in very bright light, and will be less likely to squint. Eyebrow paint may have had the same function as sunglasses, while accenting expressive eyebrow movement.”
I think I prefer the explanation from Catherine’s Introduction to Harquus Part 2: Kohl and Surma (pdf):
“Some women believed that blackening their eyelids and eyebrows would protect them from the glance of the Evil Eye, and also prevent them from transmitting the Evil Eye to another person.”
‘As is painting, so is poetry’
January 25th, 2010![]()
Tibetan skeleton costume
January 14th, 2010
Postcard from a Tibetan art exhibition in Tokyo from Leo / Megaforce.





























