Art History Animalia<p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/RattlesnakeAppreciationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RattlesnakeAppreciationDay</span></a> :<br>Nehat Ennu Sewet/Basket with <a href="https://historians.social/tags/snake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>snake</span></a> design made by a Cahuilla or Kumeyaay Ancestor, San Ysidro, CA, before 1915<br>Juncus, dyed juncus, deergrass<br>Seen on display at the Field Museum’s “Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories” exhibition in 2022<br>“My Univash/teacher, Donna Largo, had this story about a rattlesnake who was bothering the weaver. She kept shooing it away and said, ‘If you don't go away I'll put you in my basket.’ And now look, there you see it.“</p>
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Art History Animalia<p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/RattlesnakeAppreciationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RattlesnakeAppreciationDay</span></a> :<br>Knotted <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Rattlesnake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rattlesnake</span></a><br>Aztec, Postclassic 1100-1520 CE<br>Basalt, H 11 1/4 x W 16 in. (28.5 x 40.64 cm)<br>The Walters Art Museum 29.2 <a href="https://art.thewalters.org/object/29.2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">art.thewalters.org/object/29.2</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a><br>“Snakes were powerful symbols throughout Mesoamerican history, linked with the sky, rain, and agriculture. Aztecs may have seen the snake's shedding of its skin as a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life, death, and rebirth.”<br><a href="https://historians.social/tags/IndigenousArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousArt</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/MesoamericanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MesoamericanArt</span></a></p>
Art History Animalia<p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/RattlesnakeAppreciationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RattlesnakeAppreciationDay</span></a> :<br>Root <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Rattlesnake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rattlesnake</span></a>, USA, 1930<br>carved & painted wood with metal<br>6 1⁄4 x 23 1⁄8 x 17 in. (15.9 x 58.7 x 43.2 cm.)<br> Smithsonian American Art Museum 1986.65.321 <a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/root-rattlesnake-25162" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">americanart.si.edu/artwork/roo</span><span class="invisible">t-rattlesnake-25162</span></a><br><a href="https://historians.social/tags/FolkArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkArt</span></a></p>
Art History Animalia<p>For <a href="https://historians.social/tags/RattlesnakeAppreciationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RattlesnakeAppreciationDay</span></a> :<br>1. <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Rattlesnake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rattlesnake</span></a><br><a href="https://historians.social/tags/Aztec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aztec</span></a> , 1200-1520 CE<br>Rhyolite porphyry<br>2. <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Snake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snake</span></a> Head<br>Aztec, 1200-1520 CE<br>Serpentine (very fitting!)<br>both on display at Dumbarton Oaks<br><a href="https://historians.social/tags/IndigenousArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousArt</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/MesoamericanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MesoamericanArt</span></a></p>
Art History Animalia<p>For <a href="https://historians.social/tags/RattlesnakeAppreciationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RattlesnakeAppreciationDay</span></a> on <a href="https://historians.social/tags/TilesOnTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TilesOnTuesday</span></a> :<br>another of the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Chapman Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor, many featuring PA animals: 374, “Crotalus.” That’s the scientific name for a genus of rattlesnakes, only one of which is native to PA: Crotalus horridus, the Timber Rattlesnake.</p>
Art History Animalia<p>For <a href="https://historians.social/tags/RattlesnakeAppreciationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RattlesnakeAppreciationDay</span></a> :<br><a href="https://historians.social/tags/Rattlesnake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rattlesnake</span></a> Gorget, 16th c.<br>Mississippian artist, Tennessee<br>Carved shell<br>On display at Brooklyn Museum<br><a href="https://historians.social/tags/IndigenousArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousArt</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/NativeAmericanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanArt</span></a></p>
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