Images

Ghost Dance of the Sioux Indians in North America, illustration from The Illustrated London News, 3 January 1891. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Ghost Dance drum by George Beaver, late 1890s, wood, rawhide, and pigment. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, USA.

An illustration by the Italian scientist Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694) showing the lungs of a frog. (Wellcome Images)

The tomb of the scientist Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Church of Santi Gregorio e Siro, Bologna, Italy.

A 17th-century oil-on-canvas portrait by Carlo Cignani of the Italian scientist Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694).

Portrait of Samuel Adams (1722-1803) a politician from Massachusetts and an American Founding Father. Oil on canvas portrait by John Singleton Copley, c. 1772. Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Image of blackstrap molasses, produced in Paraguay. Picture by Wikipedia user Badagnani, May 2008.

George Grenville (1712-1770), Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1763 to 1765. Oil on canvas portrait by William Hoare, 1764. Christ Church, Oxford.

This Kalighat painting is based on a Bengali folklore where a cat poses as a monk on an island full of mice. The cat later proves them wrong for their initial lack of belief through saintly behavior. He then consumes the offspring of several...

This Kalighat painting depicts a scene from the Sanskrit epic, Ramayana where Ravana, a demon, abducts Sita, the wife of Rama. Jatayu, a demigod and a follower of Rama tries to rescue Sita. This painting originates from Kolkata, India, and...