AFGHANISTAN
What little girls make: war rugs
AFRICAN
Gabon: Kota Reliquary Guardian
Kuba Cloth: Textile patterns, Brain-teasing Kuba-Krazy, Brain-teasing Kuba-Krazy 2
BEADS and JEWELRY
Romanced by Wandering Amber. Contemplating Saharan journeys on a snowy day. [1.4.03]
On the Border: Peshawar Bead Bazaar [12.18.02]
From the Sands of Western China: Petrified Coral Beads [11.10.02]
Webwork: The Bead Collector
Strangled in Tangles of Beads [updated 4.1.02]
Tribal Necklace from Afghanistan, On A Shoestring
The Karen Tribal Necklace, an excerpt from "Tribe of the Breakaway Beads"
JAPANESE
Izuna Gongen: Buddhist Woodblock Detective Work
Kitsune: Fox Disguised As Priest
Netsuke: Tiny Treasures (slide show)
Portable Magic: Japanese Pocket Shrine
PHOTOGRAPHY
Daguerreotype: Ghosts in the Mirror. Five men of purpose and friendship.
TIBETAN