Photography from Africa and the Caribbean

Discover every day Photographs of the various countries of Africa and the Caribbean

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karoline.and posted a photo:

A detail from a project in Ethiopia. The locals volunteer to build the well, that's part of the deal to get the grant.

A detail from a project in Ethiopia. The locals volunteer to build the well, that's part of the deal to get the grant.

Featured Speakers Barry Childs, Founder of Africa Bridge and Lisa MacCallum, Managing Director of The Nike Foundation greet guests at the Africa Bridge Harvest Gala, an annual event to raise funds for Africa Bridge, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of orphans and vulnerable children impacted by HIV/AIDS in Tanzania by empowering their communities through microloans, income generating project training, scholarships and health education. African Dancing and Drumming performances by Obo Addy Drummers and Dancers and Sébé Kan entertains guests at the Africa Bridge Harvest Gala on Sauvie Island., August 29, 2009. Andrea J. Wright / For Africa Bridge and Social Enterprises, Inc.

Featured Speakers Barry Childs, Founder of Africa Bridge and Lisa MacCallum, Managing Director of The Nike Foundation greet guests at the Africa Bridge Harvest Gala, an annual event to raise funds for Africa Bridge, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of orphans and vulnerable children impacted by HIV/AIDS in Tanzania by empowering their communities through microloans, income generating project training, scholarships and health education. African Dancing and Drumming performances by Obo Addy Drummers and Dancers and Sébé Kan entertains guests at the Africa Bridge Harvest Gala on Sauvie Island., August 29, 2009. Andrea J. Wright / For Africa Bridge and Social Enterprises, Inc.

Martin Adolfsson posted a photo:

A wall painting from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes 18th Dynasty (ca. 1390 BC) depicts Nebamun in the marshes hunting birds with a snake-shaped throw stick and accompanied by his wife, small daughter & pet cat. It was originally the counterpart of an adjoining mirror-image scene in which he speared fish. Although this scene represents a favorite leisure pursuit (which might also magically provide the deceased with food), it has an underlying symbolism, since birds & fish were emblematic of chaos & unrest and needed to be shown under control in the tomb.

From the postcard book ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
British Museum of Art

Martin Adolfsson posted a photo:

These flat-backed glazed composition amuletic figures of the Four Sons of Horus would have been set within the wrappings of the mummy to protect the internal organs. The human-headed diety is Imsety; the jackal-headed, Duametef; the falcon-headed, Qebhsenuef; and the baboon-headed, Hapy. Since the stoppers of the canopic jars containing, respectively, the liver, stomach, intestines and lungs were carved in their heads, these gods are often known as the canopic dieties. Late New Kingdom (ca. 1000 BC).

From the postcard book ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
British Museum of Art

Martin Adolfsson posted a photo:

Martin Adolfsson posted a photo:

Come on stranger click my snap…. Was his expression.

Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia is one of the few places that I look forward to visit for work.

Addis Ababa lies at an altitude of 7,546 feet (2,300 metres), and hence the temperature is around 15 to 25 C .
The site of Addis Ababa was chosen by Empress Taytu Betul and the word Addis Ababa means New Flower.

The city has beautiful churches and an amazing nightlife.

The painted vignette from the BOOK of the DEAD papyrus of Hunefer (19th Dynasty, ca. 1280 BC) depicts the last rites before the deceassed's offering stela and tomb chapel with pyramid-shaped roof. Hunefer's mummy is held upright by a priest wearing the mask of Anubis, jackal god of embalming, so that the Opening of the Mouth ritual may be carried out on it. While the Sem priest in panther skin censes and offers libations, the other officiants raise the ritual implements that will restore to the wrapped mummy all its eartly faculties for the Other Life.

From the postcard book ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
British Museum of Art

A Middle Kingdom tomb model from Meir (ca. 1900 BC) represents a ship rigged to sail upstream on the Nile. The owner sits wrapped in a cloak before the mast, looking back toward a mummiform coffin standing upright beside the large steering oar. The pilot stands in the bow while the crew works the sail.

From the postcard book ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
British Museum of Art

The painted limestone pair statue of Katep & Hetepheres (5th Dynasty, ca. 2400 BC) is an attractive example of a common type of tomb sculpture showing a man & wife seated affectionately side by side, the woman's arm around her husband's waist.

From the postcard book ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
British Museum of Art

The smaller segment of each of this pair of rigid hinged conical gold bracelets (ca. 940 BC) depicts the naked figure of Harpocrates on a lotus, flanked by uraei. The inlays, many now lost, were of lapis lazuli and polychrome glass. The inner faces are incised with the name of their owner, prince Nimlot, son of Sheshonq 1, founder of the 22nd Dynasty.

From the postcard book ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
British Museum of Art

Gilded-cartonnage mummy mask of a highborn lady (Middlle Kingdom, ca. 1900 BC). The owner is unidentified, but the presence of the vultuure headdress in addition to the wig indicates she was royal, possibly a queen. The columns of hieroglyphs at the bottom contain only the beginnings of 2 funerary formulae asking for food & drink offerings and a good burial.

From the postcard book ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
British Museum of Art

In a vignette from the funerary papyrus of the High Priestess Anhai (20th Dynasty, ca. 100 BC), the rising sun, depicted as the falcon-formed Rehorakhty, stands on the sign for the west. He is protected by winged udjat (eyes of Horus) eyes, which carry ostrich-feather fans, and is adored by rows of dieties. Beneath dancing baboons (thought to presage the sun's dawning) kneel Isis and Nephthys in adoration. Below them the human-headed ba or spirit of Anhai (shown twice) stands with ams raised in praise on a plinth set into the western mountain's slopes. The sun disk on top of the bird's head, the bird's face and its leg feathers are gilded, a most unusual technique on papyrus.

From the postcard book ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
British Museum of Art

~Xavi~ posted a photo:

Upper part of a granite figure of Ramesses II from the temple of Khnum, Elephantine (19th Dynasty, ca. 1279-1213 BC). The pharaoh wears the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, the false beard and uraeus (sacred snake) and carries the crook & flail---all insignia of royalty. Over his short wig he wears a diadem and over his chest a broad collar.

From the postcard book ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
British Museum of Art

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