EditorialOrnaments of the Native Americans of Virginia (Powhatan) worn in a dance: belts 1,2,3, girdle of Thevetia ahouai kernels 4, bead necklaces 5,6,7, feather headdresses 8,9, apron 10 and shirt 11. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrario's ...
Editorial" Hacha", a flat, polished sculpture associated with the Maya ballgame. The significance is unknown; hachas may have been markers, or trophies, or models for the players' leather belts. From El Salvador, 600-900 CE. Basalt. Height 30 cm. Inv....
EditorialOne of Muhammad Ali's heavyweight championship belts belonging to Jim Irsay, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, at Navy Pier in Chicago, Aug. 2, 2022. (Joshua Mellin/The New York Times)
EditorialModel of a Hospital Launch, Polychromed truss model, equipped with three stretchers, on a standard. It is a smooth-edged double-belt sloop of sixteen belts with a flat mirror, the sheer rising to both ends, a round bilge with double keel. It has eight ...
EditorialA line of conveyor belts that make up a large portion of the Small Package Sort System at the FedEx facility in Memphis on June 29, 2022. (Whitten Sabbatini/The New York Times)
EditorialAshley Garza and Adrian Martinez outside their candy-making business, Texas Chile Dulceria, in Donna, Texas, on April 15, 2022. (Verónica G. Cárdenas/The New York Times)
EditorialYoung Italian women, 14th century. They wear robes without belts, each trimmed with fur at the hem. One wears her hair laced up, while the other two wear bonnets with long tails. From the Titius Livius manuscript in the Biblioteca Ambroisana, Milan. Ha...
EditorialA baggage control room worker notes a jam on one of the conveyor belts moving luggage at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, on Dec. 1, 2021. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialOver 1,200 of Hollywoods biggest blockbuster film Artifacts and 20th and 21st century screen gems including John Travoltas Pulp Fiction suit and casino chips from James Bond film Casino Royale to dazzle the auction block
EditorialNatives of Gona (Angola) above, man with bow and arrow, woman with beaded apron, child in loincloth, and Khoikhoi man in fur cape with spear and Khoikhoi woman in fur cape over beaded belts and apron. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goed...
EditorialModel of a 24-Gun Frigate, Polychromed and witnessed, small decorative block model. Twenty-four pieces are arranged in one layer. Three levels: lower deck (gates), intermediate deck, aphids and baking deck and half deck with walkways. The figurehead is...