I am fairly geeky. And I like museums. They don’t even have to be highbrow, super educational, entities to entertain me.
I took most of these in the summer when it was hot and rainy and I had nothing better to do with my time. While y’all were out changing the world I was hanging around empty museums.
Yes, this is a shrunken head. Don’t know who it belonged to either.
Cool masks….
This is what the inside of the original Piggly Wiggly looked like. The guy who started it lived in Memphis.
He built this gorgeous house…
He never actually lived in it, he went bankrupt. It now houses the Pink Palace Museum where I took the pictures.
Thanks for looking. Please don’t rec pony party, hang out chit chat, and then go look at the excellent offerings on our recent and rec’d list.
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I grew up in awe of totem poles.
I spent the better part of a year learning about the tecuani (tiger or jaguar) masks of Guerrero province in Mexico, where that Tiger mask is from, so that I could properly conserve them.
The story behind the mask is amazing. The towns of Olinala people would split into two groups of men, with half of them wearing green tiger masks and the other half wearing yellow. They would get shit face stumbling drunk on fermented cactus juice (mescal)and then go out to the corn fields to whack eachother with ropes until blood was spilled on the fields. This tradition dates back to the Aztecs if not earlier and would insure fertility of the corn crop.