Man in Plaid, 19th C. Tintype of an Earlier Ambrotype (I believe) child with stick which were made to resemble

which were made to resemble a variety of animals and human figures

late 19th or very early 20th century

And indeed this puzzle does

I continue to marvel at the wide array of things humans of different cultures do with walnuts

which do not have structural impact

Man in Plaid, 19th C. Tintype of an Earlier Ambrotype (I believe) child with stick which were made to resembleI can't get enough of photographs that speak to changing modes and mechanisms of representation, reproduction, preservation, etc etc. a contemporary conversation, but certainly not a new one, and so much of it rolled into the history of photography. And so my favorite photographs are photographs of photographs, or photographs of paintings photographs as means of preserving earlier representations and ushering them forward, often through translation