Carl Van Vechter

Portriats of English ballet dancer, Anton Dolin in the 1940's by portait photographer Carl Van Vechter.

Jewelz

I need more gold (jewelry) in my life!  

Modernistic Ring

Van Cleef and Arpels Place Vendome Ring 

Hamsa Necklance

1920's Mine Cut Ring 

10th Century Byzantine Medieval Ring

1940's "Planets" French Bracelet 

WANDER Gold Bracelets

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Hopi Color Tints

Love these Hopi Indian photographs from the 1920's-50's. We are such suckers for color tinted photographs! 

Fred Kabotie, a Hopi Pueblo artist (painter and silversmith) who was one of the first students taught painting methods by Elizabeth DeHuff

Married Hopi woman, wrapped in her wedding gown, that was likely woven by her husband. You can tell she is married because her hair is down, not up in the butterfly whorls worn by unmarried Hopi girls.

Hopi Pueblo girls grinding corn on metates

Women weaving in front of the Hopi House constructed at the Grand Canyon by the Fred Harvey Company

all images found here