ancestral futures

The <n>Great Sphinx of Giza</n> in Egypt, photographed between 1900 and 1920.

A Balinese girl in a <n>Janger dance</n> headdress, Bali, 1928. Photo by <n>Cornelius Louis André Roosevelt</n>.

A portrait of model <n>Akiima</n> from the book <n>Truffle</n> by <n>Parker Woods</n> and <n>Erin Green</n>.

A photograph by <n>Aaron Feaver</n> for <n>Saga Writers</n>' <n>Herstory</n> collection.

The <n>Samadhi Statue</n> in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, photographed by <n>A.C. Lawton</n> circa 1870.

A view of <n>Mount Batur</n> in Bali, circa the 1930s.

A portrait of Aghori Sadhu <n>Bom Bom Baba</n> in Varanasi, India, by photographer <n>Premgit</n>.

Venus de Tacarigua

A <n>Jōmon figurine</n> from the 1959 book 'Jomon clay figurines' by <n>Kinokuniya Shoten</n>.

Artist <n>Maria Martinez</n> of San Ildefonso, New Mexico, at work making pottery.

Film still from <n>Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification</n> (1979) by <n>Barbara McCullough</n>.

Photo by <n>Mischa de Stroumillo</n> for <n>The Zone Zine</n>.

<n>Cephalopodes fossiles et vivants</n> from '<n>Les Mollusques Marins du Roussillon</n>' (1882) by <n>E. Bucquoy</n> and <n>Phillippe Dautzenberg</n>.

The <n>Arca tipe 'Polinesia' dari Ciaruteun Ilir</n>, a statue from Bogor, Indonesia.

An <n>Inca</n> pottery vessel and basalt bowl from the <n>Museum of Archaeology, Cuzco</n>.

A garland on the royal insignia of <n>Tutankhamun</n>'s outermost coffin. Photo by <n>Harry Burton</n>, 1926.

A <n>Kalinga woman</n> wearing a <n>linglingo</n> earring. Photo by <n>Eduardo Masferré</n>.

Photo of <n>Isis</n> on a sarcophagus lid, ca. 1400 BCE. From the <n>Eranos Archive</n> by <n>Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn</n>.