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India , 17th C, two women, one shooting a dildo, manuscript illustration
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Turkey, Male Group Scene, 19th century, (miniature painting from the Khamsa of Nevi Zade Atai, Khamsa (Book of Mesnivis).
One of the Nommo, androgynous water spirit and mythic ancestor of the Dogon people, Africa
Chinese women with dildos, album paining on silk, 19th C
19th C “anthropological” photo of two Taureq women. (This photo inspired Henri Matisse’s sculpture, Two Negresses, 1908. Matisse created this sculpture and many other lesbian images during a period in which Gertrude Stein became his friend and patron.)
Rock painting, Australia
Camunda, India , 10th C
China , 18th C, Two men making love on a terrace, painting on silk
China , Two women with bound feet having sex outdoors, silk painting, 1640
One of the Nommo, androgynous ancestors of the Dogon people of West Africa
Ancient Egypt , Two men and a woman. Funeral stele commissioned by Amenemhet. c. 2100 BC
Ancient Egypt , the God Bes, whose breasts gave the first drink, c. 1390 BC
Eikoh Hosoe, Portrait of Yukio Mishima, photograph, 1961
Carved Door, detail, from Modakele, Ife, Africa
Tibet , 18th C, Lhamo’s saddle undercloth
India , Rajasthan, late 18th C, 9” x 7”, woman anointed with oil by maids
India , 18th C, affectionate women, detail of miniature painting
India , 9th C, Ardhanarisvara: the lord whose half is woman, sandstone sculpture
India , 18th C, Kathak Dance
India , 18th C, affectionate women, detail of miniature painting
Lesbian orgy, Shunga scroll, Japan c. 1870
Carved wooden headrest of the Luba people of the Congo
Persia , watercolour, Wrestlers, 1685
Persia , Riza-i-Abbasi, Two Lovers, miniature painting, 1630
Ancestor figures from the sacred men’s house, Sepik region, New Guinea
Japan , Phallic Contest, Shunga scroll
Yoruba mask of a woman giving birth, worn by male dancers
