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Showing posts with label cultural cross reference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cultural cross reference. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Indian Christ



found this wonderful image online and now cant seem to track down the source- seems to be a snapshot from someone's blog- a wonderful piece of cross-cultural reference, a russian (greek)-style icon of Christ as an american Indian —

here is the more familiar icon of st. Peter the Aleut- martyr, canonized by the russian orthdox church

che guevara


(pic from Spinach)

and the russians would all know the nike one: