1350-2073 - New Ireland Malagan funerary statue in at the Metropolitan Museum of Art museum, New York, USA. New Ireland is part of the Bismarck Archipelago, situated north of New Guinea, and has an estimated population of 100,000. The Dutch first encountered the island in 1616, and today New Ireland is a province of Papua New Guinea. Nineteen different languages are spoken on the island, and it is divided by a chain of mountains into three distinct regions: northern, central, and southeastern. The art of New Ireland traditionally centered on mortuary ceremonies and feasts to honor the dead. In northern New Ireland, the name given to these elaborate ceremonies is malagan, which is also the term used for the carved and painted sculptures associated with the ceremonies.
1350-2074 - Yagim Mask at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Yagim Mask, 1920-25 Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Wood, paint. George Walkus (kwakwaka'wakw, ca 1875-1968). A furtive aggressive sea creature known as Yagim was part of the dramatic Tseyka performance cycle, which took place during the dark winter when life on the North West coast moves largely indoors
1350-2076 - NEW YORK, Graffiti painted in the shade of an establishment of Harlem. In New York in black and suburbs as the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem, the birth of graffiti occurred.
805-493 - Models being made from clay from the River Hugli in moulds, to be painted for puja ceremonies, Kumartuli district, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Asia
805-494 - Master sculptors making models from clay from the River Hugli, to be painted for puja ceremonies, Kumartuli district, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Asia
805-498 - Master sculptor making models from clay from the River Hugli, to be painted for festival ceremonies, Kumartuli district, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Asia
1116-50018 - Church of Elijah the Prophet, fresco on the wall of Elijah's ascension into heaven in a whirlwind; Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
1116-50017 - Church of Elijah the Prophet, with colourful frescos on the wall depicting Biblical scenes of harvest; Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia