briery

Natural Fashion from Ethiopia’s Omo Valley

Photographs by Hans Silvester

The inflating coremata of a male Creatonotos gangis moth.

You liberate in me my feminine being, my most obscure and most hidden being. You make me soft (humanize, feminize,
animalize) like fur.

Marina Tsvetaeva, from “Nine Letters with a Tenth Held Back and an Eleventh Received,”

Oozing bracket fungus.

“Granny Witches” Granny women are purported to be healers and midwives in Southern
Appalachia and the Ozarks, claimed by a few academics as practicing from
the 1880s to the 1930s. They are theorized to be usually elder women in
the community and may have been the only practitioners of health care
in the poor rural areas of Southern Appalachia. They are fancied to not
have expected or received payment, and were respected as authorities on
herbal healing and childbirth. They are mentioned by John C. Campbell in
The Southern Highlander and His Homeland.

Sarcoscypha coccinea, commonly known as the scarlet elf cup,
scarlet elf cap, or the scarlet cup, is a species of fungus in the
family Sarcoscyphaceae of the order Pezizales.