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Resharing for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙
#CephalopodAwarenessDays
animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Oct 9
For #WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
#Octopus Form Box
Japan, late 19th century
Hirado Mikawachi ware, porcelain with blue & brown glazes
6 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (17.15 x 17.15 x 11.43 cm)
LACMA M.2002.147.2a-b collections.lacma.org/node/206463
official museum photo of the object in front profile: porcelain lidded box in the form of a white octopus on brown rocks with blue waves
October 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Resharing for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙
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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Oct 9
For #WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
#Octopus Chatelaine, 1887
Gorham Manufacturing Company (Providence, RI, USA)
Silver, red glass, black beads
W. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2001.326:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch...
official museum photo of object on light grey background: chatelaine in the form of an octopus (chain suspended from each of the 8 appendages), silver body, red & black eyes
October 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Jan 3
Jeanne Bieruma Oosting (Dutch, 1898–1994)
#Octopus, c. 1960
Relief etching, aquatint print; H 334 x W 434 mm
Rijksmuseum RP-P-1982-872
id.rijksmuseum.nl/200292951
#WomenArtists
color print, red/black/blue inks, red octopus swimming in blue water with red coral on bottom right, title and artist signature in pencil along lower margin
October 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Resharing for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙
#CephalopodAwarenessDays
animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Oct 9
It's #OCTOber #OctopusDay 🐙 and I'm awestruck by this incredible #octopus platter!
Traditional #Haida carved argillite, late 19th c., from Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, Canada). 3 x 20 x 29.6 cm. Anchorage Museum 1977.008.001: onlinecollections.anchoragemuseum.org/uploaded_fil...
official museum photo of the octopus platter, top-down view: "Oval-shaped dish featuring a raised octopus in the interior and a rope border."
October 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Resharing for #NautilusNight
#CephalopodAwarenessDays
animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Oct 10
Light it up for #NautilusNight with an original Nautilus Reading Lamp by Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co. (NYC, USA), bronze & leaded glass, c. 1899-1902. [A later version would use an actual #nautilus shell for the shade.] 
Cleveland Museum of Art: clevelandart.org/art/1997.298
#ArtNouveau
official museum photo of the nautilus lamp; Bronze, leaded glass Overall: 34.5 x 21.3 x 13.4 cm (13 9/16 x 8 3/8 × 5 1/4 in.); DESCRIPTION Benjamin Hubbell, the architect of the Cleveland Museum of Art, acquired this vase from Louis Comfort Tiffany, with whom he collaborated on various projects. The shape of the nautilus shell provides the perfect space to conceal a light bulb, the newest form of technology at the time. As a result, this lamp was a critical success and sold both in this original form and with the later alteration of a bronze mermaid for the stand and an actual nautilus shell for the shade.
October 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Resharing for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙
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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Oct 9
For #WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
#Octopus Frontlet
Moche (La Mina), Peru, 300–600 CE
Gold, chrysocolla, shells
H. 11 × W. 16 15/16 × D. 1 3/4 in. (27.9 × 43.1 × 4.4 cm)
Museo de la Nación, Lima, Ministerio de Cultura del Perú (MN-14602)
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
official museum photo of the gold octopus frontlet, full front view on black background “This object would have been affixed to a cylindrical headdress. Made of gold sheet, it was cut into the shape of a supernatural figure with serrated octopus tentacles that terminate in catfish heads. The creature rests on two clawlike feet, depicted in low relief. Reportedly found at La Mina, in the Jequetepeque Valley, the frontlet is remarkably similar to an example illustrated on a ceramic vessel from Dos Cabezas.”
October 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Resharing for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙
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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Oct 9

For #WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
2 19th century glass models from the Museum of Comparative Zoology collection of Blaschka Glass Invertebrates, on display at Harvard Museum of Natural History:
1 Atlantic White-spotted
Octopus (Callistoctopus Macropus)
MCZ SC381
2 Curled Octopus (Eledone cirrhosa)
MCZ SC364
Photo of glass octopus model on display at museum with label “Atlantic White-spotted Octopus Callistoctopus Macropus Mollusca-Cephalopoda-Octopoda MCZ SC#381 Octopus Macropus” Photo of glass octopus model on display at museum with label “Curled Octopus Eledone cirrhosa Mollusca-Cephalopoda-Octopoda MCZ SC#364 Eledone aldrovandi”
October 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Resharing for #SquittleDay (squid and cuttlefish day!)
#CephalopodAwarenessDays
animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Apr 23
#MonochromeMonday :
Billy Missi (Torres Strait Islander, 1970-2012)
#Seahorses & #Squid, 1999
stone lithograph, 32 x 22 cm
www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Seah...
square black and white lithograph, illustration of a single squid surrounded by small seahorses
October 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Resharing for the final day of #CephalopodAwarenessDays - #FossilDay:
animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Apr 28
For #InverteFest:
#Ammonite Fossil in Black Marble #Bear Fetish
Artist: Lena Boone, Zuni Pueblo
On display at SRJC Multicultural Museum, CA (113.389)
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt
photo of the object on display at museum: a Zuni Pueblo bear fetish figure fashioned out of an ammonite fossil in black marble, outer end of spiral carved into a bear face with small blue eye (turquoise?)
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Resharing for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙
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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Jan 9
#Woodensday :
Ema: #Octopus as Buddha of Healing Takoyakushi
たこ薬師
Jôju-in Temple, Tokyo, Japan, 1989
wood, ink, paints, nylon cord; 9 x 13 x 0.5 cm
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Ethnologisches Museum
recherche.smb.museum/detail/14410...
#JapaneseArt
official museum photo of the object, front profile on blue-grey background example of an ema, "small wooden plaques, common to Japan, in which Shinto and Buddhist worshippers write prayers or wishes. Ema are left hanging up at the shrine, where the kami (spirits or gods) are believed to receive them" (Wikipedia)
October 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
For #WorldOctopusDay 🐙 here's a smiley octopus on a terracotta plate from Getty Museum 😀
Detail from Paestan Red-Figure Fish Plate, 4th c. BCE, attributed to the Binningen Painter
getty.edu/art/collecti...
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Paestan Red-Figure Fish Plate (happy-looking octopus detail) attributed to the Binningen Painter 3rd quarter of 4th century BCE terracotta 6.5 × 26 cm (2 9/16 × 10 1/4 in.) Paestum, South Italy Greek (South Italian, Paestan) Getty Museum Obj. No. 96.AE.240
October 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
For the final day of #CephalopodAwarenessDays - #FossilDay: iridescent #ammonite fossil (Caloceras johnstoni), historical #sciart color plate from James Sowerby's _The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain_ v.5 (1825)
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5166030...
iridescent ammonite fossil (Caloceras johnstoni), color plate from James Sowerby's _The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain_ v.5 (1825)
October 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
stomachlining.bsky.social
Today in #CephalopodAwarenessDays: #Squittleday! Today honors squid & cuttlefish. This should be done every day imo, I'll take what I can get..

FUN FACT: Cuttlefish have been my favorite creature since I was 5. I fell for them HARD. Here is Ze Frank with TRUE FACTS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwO...
True Facts About The CuttleFish
YouTube video by Ze Frank
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
#WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
A #cat dressed as a woman tapping the head of an #octopus, color woodcut print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japan, 1798-1861), c. 1847.
36.4 cm (14.3 in) x 25.3 cm (9.9 in) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_...
#CatsInArt #CephalopodAwarenessDays #JapaneseArt
anthropomorphic cat dressed in a flowery kimono, with one paw on the head of an adjacent orange octopus, with Japanese text and seals (Japanese color woodcut print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi) closeup of the octopus, orange with blue eyes
October 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
For #NautilusNight
#CephalopodAwarenessDays
Tiffany Studios (NYC, USA)
#Nautilus Table Lamp, c.1905
nautilus shell, gilt bronze, mother of pearl
H 13⅜ in. (34 cm)
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
#ArtNouveau
official auction photo of the nautilus table lamp, quarter turn side profile on light grey background with a real polished nautilus shell used as the lampshade
October 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
For the final day of #CephalopodAwarenessDays - #FossilDay: "Ammonitida," Plate 44 in _Kunstformen der Natur_ by Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), 1904. #Ammonite fossils!
www.biolib.de/haeckel/kuns...
"Ammonitida," Plate 44 in Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904. Black and white print, composite of 10 fossil ammonite images: 1. Ammonites (Cardioceras) cordatus = Cardioceras cordatum, from side 2. Ammonites (Cardioceras) cordatus = Cardioceras cordatum, from below 3. Ammonites (Schloenbachia) Coupei = Schloenbachia varians?, from side 4. Ammonites (Schloenbachia) Coupei = Schloenbachia varians?, from below 5. Ammonites (Ptychites) opulentus = Ptychites opulentus, from side (outer shell layer removed) 6. Ammonites (Ptychites) opulentus = Ptychites opulentus, from below 7. Ammonites (ornatus) mammillaris = Douvilleiceras mammillatum, from side 8. Ammonites (planulatus) cavernosus = Puzosia planulatus, cross-section 9. Ammonites (amaltheus) rotula = Amaltheus margaritatus, from side 10. Ammonites (stephanoceras) Humphryi = Stephanoceras humphriesianum, from side https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haeckel_Ammonitida.jpg
October 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
For #SquittleDay (squid and cuttlefish day!): “cool shades” #squid in an ancient Roman sea bed mosaic, 2nd c. BCE. Archaeological Museum of Populonia, Piombino, Italy. 😎
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mo...
#CephalopodAwarenessDays
Cool squid in an ancient Roman sea bed mosaic - looks like it has sunglasses on its head LOL! (not covering the eyes, which are visible - like if you had your sunglasses resting on top of your head)
October 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
#WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
2 amazing #octopus tsubas (sword guards) @ the Met - which is your favorite?
#CephalopodAwarenessDays
1-2 tsuba w/ octopus design, Japan, late 18th c. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
3-4 tsuba w/ octopus design, Japan, c. 1615–1868 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#JapaneseArt
tsuba (sword guard) with octopus design, Japan, late 18th century, iron and copper, obverse tsuba (sword guard) with octopus design, Japan, late 18th century, iron and copper, reverse tsuba (sword guard) with octopus design, Japan, c. 1615–1868, copper alloy (sentoku), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), copper-gold alloy (shakudō), silver, and gold, obverse tsuba (sword guard) with octopus design, Japan, c. 1615–1868, copper alloy (sentoku), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), copper-gold alloy (shakudō), silver, and gold, reverse
October 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
#CephalopodAwarenessDays : #NautilusNight :
Cornelis Bellekin (Dutch, c.1625-1711)
1. #Nautilus #shell w/ carved vines, 1650-1700
W 7.5 x D 6 x T 4 cm
id.rijksmuseum.nl/20087753
2. Nautilus shell carved from mother of pearl w/ floral tendrils, 1650-1700
W 6 x D 4 x T 4 cm
id.rijksmuseum.nl/20087758
"A nautilus shell decorated with vine tendrils cut from the mantle around the sides and four concentric ovals on the underside. Two female heads resting in a rosette are carved from the thickness around the navel. Signed Cbf (Cornelis Bellekin fecit). Northern Netherlands, second half of the 17th century." BK-1957-19-1 "Nautilus shell decorated with floral scrolls cut from the mantle and dolphins cut out of the thickness around the navel. Nautilus shell detached from the (separately preserved) non-original base. Northern Netherlands, second half of the 17th century. Signed Cbf." BK-1957-18-2
October 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
For #WorldOctopusDay 🐙on a #Woodensday:
#Octopus and #Rat by Kuki Sii, Tongan artist
wood carving w/ shell
Sydney, Australia c.1970
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The Rat and the Octopus book by Temukisa Lelemia, Ill. by Murray Grimsdale
Wellington, NewZealand 1998

seen on display at AMNH NYC

#CephalopodAwarenessDays
“ Octopus and rat carving By Kuki Sii, Tongan artist | Wood, shell | Sydney, Australia, c.1970 American Museum of Natural History 80 1/7084 The Rat and the Octopus by Temukisa Lelemia Illustrated by Murray Grimsdale I Learning Media Wellington | New Zealand, 1998 American Museum of Natural History 80 1/7209 This carving and children's storybook depict the legend of an ungrateful rat and the octopus's revenge, as told for generations in Tonga, Samoa, the Tuamotus and other islands. Storytelling links islands and shares ways of thinkitig about animals over time and space.” closeup of the rat on the octopus’ head another view of the octopus and rat sculpture (side view) closer view of the book and gallery label
October 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
stomachlining.bsky.social
It is Oct. 9th, 2nd day of the #CephalopodAwarenessDays! Today's observance is #NAUTILUSNIGHT, in which we learn about and celebrate the NAUTILUS. Here are some nautilus in all their glory off the coast of Palau: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot7_...
First nautiloids spotted from E/V Nautilus on last dive of season! | Nautilus Live
YouTube video by EVNautilus
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October 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
candiphoenixesa.bsky.social
Happy Nautilus Day! #CephalopodAwarenessDays #MarineBiology #Splatoon
a cartoon character with the words what 's his snapchat written below it
ALT: a cartoon character with the words what 's his snapchat written below it
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October 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
candiphoenixesa.bsky.social
Happy International Octopus Awareness Day #Splatoon #MarineBiology #Cephalopodawarenessdays
a cartoon octopus with a crown on its head is surrounded by purple lights .
ALT: a cartoon octopus with a crown on its head is surrounded by purple lights .
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October 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I forgot that 2 years ago around this time of year I took a picture of a squid gill that I thought was just so beautiful.

💙That blue color is from the squid blood 💙

#SquidSquad

#CephalopodAwarenessWeek #CephalopodAwarenessDays
December 2, 2024 at 6:40 PM