Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro (@kalhoroanthropologist) • Instagram photos and videos

Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro
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Explore the rock art of Pakistan with the only archaeologist documenting and preserving these to date.           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro (@kalhoroanthropologist) 675 Followers, 254 Following, 2,471 Posts – See Instagram photos…

Healing Scroll | Tigrinya peoples | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In Ethiopia customized protective scrolls that interweave sacred imagery with textual prayers have been prescribed by traditional healers for over two thousand years. These were carried on the person of the individual to whom they were specifically dedicated to shield them from harm.Often the customized content of a scroll is astrologically determined. In Ethiopia as…

How to Make Cone Bells for Jingle Dresses and Skirts Out of Tin Cans

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Back in the day, I’m told that one branch of my ancestors, the Iswa, also called the Catawba, used to wear anklets made from turtle shells, to rattle while we danced. These days, it might be difficult to find them in some places, and there also aren’t so many turtles to spare. So many of…