Three Aztec/Mixtec ceremonial masks from the British Museum, dating back to the mid 1400s. Beautifully inlaid with turquoise and obsidian, these objects are gruesomely built around human skulls.
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Aztec Death Masks
Three Aztec/Mixtec ceremonial masks from the British Museum, dating back to the mid 1400s. Beautifully inlaid with turquoise and obsidian, these objects are gruesomely built around human skulls.
Vomit in the Streets of London
A British Classic: Drunken people helping their drunken friends vomit on the pavement. To be fair, such scenes can be observed in almost any metropolis in the world.
To illustrate my point, here is another example, this time from Istanbul. Behold the vomit-clogged sinks of the infamous Bambi Bufe in Taksim.
A Dolphin's Skull
This photo and below; two views of a dolphin's skull which I saw for sale in a junk and antique shop in Alaçatı.
Several species of dolphins inhabit Turkish coasts, I am not certain which one this is.
