Happy International Cat Day to our feline friends and their humans!

A curated collection of art from museums around the world, depicting people from 5 continents in the company of cats. 

Happy DOGust! For the Dog Lovers: Non-Eurocentric Dog Art!

Dear dog people,

August is DOGust. Tired of paging through the some arts app's mostly Eurocentric highlights looking for work created by artists from the global majority?

Good news.I've put together the following collection in Google Arts and Culture for your enjoyment :-)

Dog art from non-European cultures -  50 images of dogs and dog-like beings created by non-European artists in ancient and modern cultures

Skull modification around the world

Arawe skull lengthening in Papua New Guinea 

Mangbetu skull elongation in DRC

The scifi illustration Through the Gate was inspired by elegant Mangbetu head shapes and hair-styles.

A (non-exhaustive) list of cultures that practiced head shaping for aesthetic or social reasons:

Sun Eaters, Moon Eaters

From Asia and the Americas, myths about animals/demons that devour the sun or the moon:

Jaguar Dreaming

I've decided that my tiger needed some company. :-) This is the 2nd piece in the Wild Cat Portrait series.

Jaguars in the mythology of the Americas:

• One of the aspects of the Aztec deity Tezcatlipoca is a jaguar who destroyed the world.
• The Mayans' many jaguar deities
• Priests of Chavin temple in Peru were depicted as able to shapeshift into jaguars (Paul Richard Steele, Handbook of Inca Mythology, p162)
• A Yanomamo Jaguar Myth

Get this jaguar as:

• 8.5"x11" (approx.) print (on storenvy.com)
• Masks, stickers, and more awesome products on redbubble.com)