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Oglala Lakota Sioux chief Red Cloud, black and white photograph by the American photographer John K. Hillers (1843-1925), Washington D.C., 1880. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University...

Greek red figure stemless cup from Apula, 330-320 BCE, depicting a dancing maenad - female follower of Dionysus - holding a bell and tambourine. (Archaeological Museum, Milan)

The tondo of a red-figure kylix depicting a Satyr riding a donkey. c. 510 BCE. (Agora Museum, Athens)

Red Cloud, bust by Jim Brothers. Nebraska Hall of Fame.

The 1915 Red Cross with Triptych Egg by Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). The egg was given by Tsar Nicholas II (r. 1894-1917) to his wife Alexandra Feodorovna. The egg commemorates the founding of the Russian Red Cross by the empress. It is...

The Etruscan death demon Charun escorts the deceased to the Underworld. He is characterised by a heavy hammer and a hooked nose. From Vulci (Italy). Around 300 BCE. (Altes Museum, Berlin)

Greek wine was chilled by letting it stand in a psykter, which was in turn placed in a wine-mixing bowl filled with cold water or snow. Greek, made in Athens around 510 BCE. Attributed to the Dikaios Painter. From the Pourtales Collection...

The moulded heads of a satyr and of a woman are joined back-to-back on this kantharos (drinking cup). Drinking from it, the (male) symposiast would have found himself confronted with 2 different images that represent opposites of himself...

This is a bowl for mixing wine and water. Greek, made in Athens around 450-440 BCE. Said to be Aegina, Greece. (The British Museum, London).

Drinking cups were used for wine consumption at a symposium, a ceremonious party for Greek males. They are often decorated with symposiac scenes. Here, Satyrs and Maenads in the retinue of the wine god Dionysus dance with abandon as the music...