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Chak-mol [chacmool]
Hirsch and Rogo visited the “Temple of the Serpents” at Chichen Itza, a major Mayan site in the Yucatan Peninsula. In Mayan culture, the chacmool was a ceremonial statue featuring a reclining warrior. These statues were centrally featured in Mayan…
Cerioneyces communis
Watercolor drawing on paper of three fungi in shades of brown, moss green, and beige, accompanied by pencilled text on right side of page: the center and largest image measures 2 1/2 inches in height and 2 1/2 inches at widest point; the brown…
Ceriomyces communis [?]
1. Pileus fleshy, glabrous- ^or minutely tomentose / dry, expanded / dark brown with yellowish tints, / margin thick, context firm yellowish / quickly changing to deep blue when cut / or wounded- / 2. Tubes [sic] nearly free, slightly depressed /…
Catskill Mountain House: The Four Elements
Painting by Thomas Cole, member of Hudson River School, to illustrate a depiction of sublimity in the age of American Romanticism
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Henry Elting's rye fields grain in shock
Stacks (shocks) of rye are standing in a farm field near Pitcher Lane in Upper Red Hook, circa 1905.