#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay post of the 4 species I have photographed in the wild!
Western Pygmy Rattlesnake (MO)
Prairie Rattlesnake (CO)
Mojave Rattlesnake (AZ)
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (AZ)
#Herping #Wildlife #Naturalist #Snakes #Rattlesnakes #InTheWild #NaturePhotography
official museum photo of the object on light grey background rattlesnake sculpture fashioned from a large piece of twisted tree root, painted in splotches of browns and black, carved face on head end, rattle piece attached to tail end
For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay on #Woodensday :
Root #Rattlesnake
USA, c.1930
Carved & painted wood with metal
6 1⁄4 x 23 1⁄8 x 17 in. (15.9 x 58.7 x 43.2 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum 1986.65.321 americanart.si.edu/artwork/root...
Resharing for #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay
Resharing for #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay
Resharing for #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay
Resharing for #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay
Resharing for #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay
Resharing for #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay
composite photo of the basket and the gallery label on display at the museum exhibition on 2022; woven basket with a design of a coiled rattlesnake with tail at center and head at edge / “My Univash/teacher, Donna Largo, had this story about a rattlesnake who was bothering the weaver. She kept shooing it away and said, ‘If you don't go away I'll put you in my basket.’ And now look, there you see it. The snake design became very popular; collectors started requesting it. You can really see the high quality, the craftsmanship of the weavers in these baskets.”
#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
Nehat Ennu Sewet/Basket with #snake design made by a Cahuilla or Kumeyaay Ancestor, San Ysidro, CA, before 1915
Juncus, dyed juncus, deergrass
Seen on display at the Field Museum’s “Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories” exhibition in 2022
official museum photo of the object on gradient grey background, front profile view showing head “Compact and smoothly polished, this rattlesnake displays typical Aztec sculptural techniques. Both the musculature of this snake's body and its head have been sculpted in great detail. The eyes were probably once inlaid, and ferocious fangs descend from the snake's upper jaw. Snakes were powerful symbols throughout Mesoamerican history, linked with the sky, rain, and agriculture. Aztecs may have seen the snake's shedding of its skin as a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life, death, and rebirth.”
official museum photo of the object on gradient grey background, back profile view showing tail “Compact and smoothly polished, this rattlesnake displays typical Aztec sculptural techniques. Both the musculature of this snake's body and its head have been sculpted in great detail. The eyes were probably once inlaid, and ferocious fangs descend from the snake's upper jaw. Snakes were powerful symbols throughout Mesoamerican history, linked with the sky, rain, and agriculture. Aztecs may have seen the snake's shedding of its skin as a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life, death, and rebirth.”
#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
Knotted #Rattlesnake
Aztec, Postclassic 1100-1520 CE
Basalt, H 11 1/4 x W 16 in. (28.5 x 40.64 cm)
Walters Art Museum 29.2 art.thewalters.org/object/29.2/
See ALTs for more info
#IndigenousArt #MesoAmericanArt
Happy #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay! 🐍❤️
Meet June, a stunning Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) that resides at our Snake Conservation Center. June helps educate about the importance of rattlesnake conservation.
#SaveTheSnakes #WildlifeConservation
📸 River Steen
photo of sculpture on a pedestal display at museum - large coiled rattlesnake
photo of sculpture mounted on display at museum - carved snake head and label: “Rattlesnakes are frequent subjects in Aztec stonework. This carving is one of the most realistic known, and was probably part of a coiled snake sculpture like those on display in this gallery. Throughout Mesoamerica, serpents were strongly associated with the sky and celestial bodies, as well as water and earth.”
For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay : 1. #Rattlesnake #Aztec , 1200-1520 CE Rhyolite porphyry 2. #Snake Head Aztec, 1200-1520 CE Serpentine (very fitting!) both on display at Dumbarton Oaks #IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt
A carved and inked linoleum block lying on top of two faded test prints of the same block on paper. The block depicts a curled up rattlesnake on a bed of oak leaves.
A photo of a hand holding an art print in black ink on white paper. The print depicts the same image of the rattlesnake as the linoleum cut.
I heard it’s #rattlesnakeappreciationday so here’s a little Pygmy rattlesnake linocut I did earlier this year!
photo of the gorget on display at museum
gallery label: “Mississippian artist Rattlesnake Gorget, 1500-1600 Tennessee Shell Collection of Christopher B. Martin, L49.3.2 The rattlesnake depicted abstractly on this shell gorget or pendant is a denizen of the underworld, a watery realm associated with death and other supernatural beings, such as the serpent and panther. For Mississippian people, their trilevel universe also included an upper world, represented by the sun, fire, and a falcon being, and a middle world of earth occupied by human beings. Whelk shells traded from the Gulf Coast region were used to make ritual ornaments worn for ceremonies intended to keep the three realms in balance.”
For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
#Rattlesnake Gorget, 16th c.
Mississippian artist, Tennessee
Carved shell
On display at Brooklyn Museum
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt
It's #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay! This is a word cloud along with a tiny fraction of the comments we get from Project RattleCam (www.rattlecam.org) viewers about how the livestream has changed the way they see rattlesnakes.
