#InternationalLandSnailDay
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For #InternationalLandSnailDay 🐌:
Stirrup Spout Vessel Depicting a #Snail Hunt
Peru, Moche Culture, Early Intermediate Period, Moche III-IV Phases, 200-550 CE
Slipped earthenware
Reading Public Museum 2006.7.6
photo of the snail vessel on display at museum Single spout stirrup vessel, dark and light brown colors Photo of gallery label “Stirrup Spout Vessel Depicting a Snail Hunt Early Intermediate Period, Moche III-IV Phases, A.D. 200-550 Moche Culture Peru slipped earthenware The figures on this Moche vessel hold gathering sticks that collect snails depicted in sculpture relief. The snail gathering ritual is taking place on a mountain suggested by the serpentine lines that arc across the top and front of the vessel. The snails absorbed mescaline-based chemicals while feeding on San Pedro cactuses, depicted here as the spiny plants growing on top of and between the mountains. Consuming them would have provided a potent hallucinogenic experience and an entry into the spirit world. Museum Purchase 2006.7.6”
November 8, 2024 at 5:08 AM
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For #InternationalLandSnailDay 🐌:
Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting #Snails? - www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w... via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails?
It's a common scene in medieval marginalia. But what does it mean?
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November 8, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1674) on her philosophical and scientific investigation into that eternal question ‘do snails have teeth’!
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November 7, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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It's #InternationalLandSnailDay! 🐌🐌

DYK, snail (and slug) hermaphroditism was first described by English naturalist John Ray in 1660. Quite late, really. Read all about it: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a.... #histsci #histbio #QueerInSTEM 🗃️

Image: The Naturalist’s Miscellany (1790), see ALT text.
This colour plate from the Naturalist’s Miscellany (1790) depicts the exchange of love darts between two garden snails. It's wonderfully inaccurate - the darts do not propel through the air as the image depicts but are fired on contact, piercing the mate and stimulating hormonal reactions that aid reproductive success. It can go on for hours.
November 7, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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For a belated #InternationalLandSnailDay:
Pair of boxes with covers in the form of #snails, c.1750
German, Hanover Münden
Tin-glazed earthenware
3 × 4 1/4 in. (7.6 × 10.8 cm) each
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1974.356.265a, b, .266a, b
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pair of ceramic lidded containers in the form of snails, lilac/black/white striped pattern
November 9, 2023 at 11:14 PM
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For a belated #InternationalLandSnailDay:
Two plates featuring snails from Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe by Anton Seder (German, 1850-1916), 1890, an influential work in the #ArtNouveau mmovement:
Pl. 144 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An...
Pl. 158 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An...
digitized image of plate 144: color lithograph from a book of Art Nouveau floral designs (with fauna often included) digitized image of plate 158: color lithograph from a book of Art Nouveau floral designs (with fauna often included)
November 9, 2023 at 10:52 PM