Around 20 years ago, a farmer in Korsha, in the southern Khevsureti region of Georgia, set up his own small ethnographic museum, where he displays objects from the everyday culture of the Khevsurs and historical photographs.
The traditional Khevsur costumes are said to be around 150 years old.
(June 2026)
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"Apocalyptic Rider Mexican style" in an exhibition on the Mexican cult of the dead at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnographic Museum in Cologne).
(January 2013)
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East Asian masks in the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum of Ethnography (Cologne)
(May 2019)
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Figures for a Mexican funeral ceremony (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde Cologne)
(November 2016)
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Probably something like the "apocalyptic riders" - figures that play a role in Mexican funeral ceremonies (in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, Cologne)
(January 2013)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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