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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Jan 29
Happy #LunarNewYear #YearOfTheSnake 🌕🐍
Coiled #Rattlesnake Matchsafe, c.1890
Manufactured by William B. Kerr & Company, USA
Silver; 6.7 x 4.3 x 1.5 cm (2 5/8 x 1 11/16 x 9/16 in.)
Cooper Hewitt 1978-146-123 collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1849...
official museum photo of the object, front profile on grey background: silver matchsafe in the form of a coiled rattlesnake with finely articulated scales throughout body; rattle tail visible along right edge and head with open mouth visible on upper left
January 28, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
Nehat Ennu Sewet/Basket with #snake design made by a Cahuilla or Kumeyaay Ancestor, San Ysidro, CA, before 1915
Juncus, dyed juncus, deergrass
Seen on display at the Field Museum’s “Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories” exhibition in 2022
composite photo of the basket and the gallery label on display at the museum exhibition on 2022; woven basket with a design of a coiled rattlesnake with tail at center and head at edge / “My Univash/teacher, Donna Largo, had this story about a rattlesnake who was bothering the weaver. She kept shooing it away and said, ‘If you don't go away I'll put you in my basket.’ And now look, there you see it. The snake design became very popular; collectors started requesting it. You can really see the high quality, the craftsmanship of the weavers in these baskets.”
January 28, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
#Rattlesnake Gorget, 16th c.
Mississippian artist, Tennessee
Carved shell
On display at Brooklyn Museum
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt
photo of the gorget on display at museum gallery label: “Mississippian artist Rattlesnake Gorget, 1500-1600 Tennessee Shell Collection of Christopher B. Martin, L49.3.2 The rattlesnake depicted abstractly on this shell gorget or pendant is a denizen of the underworld, a watery realm associated with death and other supernatural beings, such as the serpent and panther. For Mississippian people, their trilevel universe also included an upper world, represented by the sun, fire, and a falcon being, and a middle world of earth occupied by human beings. Whelk shells traded from the Gulf Coast region were used to make ritual ornaments worn for ceremonies intended to keep the three realms in balance.”
January 28, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
1. #Rattlesnake
#Aztec , 1200-1520 CE
Rhyolite porphyry
2. #Snake Head
Aztec, 1200-1520 CE
Serpentine (very fitting!)
both on display at Dumbarton Oaks
#IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt
photo of sculpture on a pedestal display at museum - large coiled rattlesnake photo of sculpture mounted on display at museum - carved snake head and label: “Rattlesnakes are frequent subjects in Aztec stonework. This carving is one of the most realistic known, and was probably part of a coiled snake sculpture like those on display in this gallery. Throughout Mesoamerica, serpents were strongly associated with the sky and celestial bodies, as well as water and earth.”
January 28, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
Knotted #Rattlesnake
Aztec, Postclassic 1100-1520 CE
Basalt, H 11 1/4 x W 16 in. (28.5 x 40.64 cm)
Walters Art Museum 29.2 art.thewalters.org/object/29.2/
See ALTs for more info
#IndigenousArt #MesoAmericanArt
official museum photo of the object on gradient grey background, front profile view showing head “Compact and smoothly polished, this rattlesnake displays typical Aztec sculptural techniques. Both the musculature of this snake's body and its head have been sculpted in great detail. The eyes were probably once inlaid, and ferocious fangs descend from the snake's upper jaw. Snakes were powerful symbols throughout Mesoamerican history, linked with the sky, rain, and agriculture. Aztecs may have seen the snake's shedding of its skin as a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life, death, and rebirth.” official museum photo of the object on gradient grey background, back profile view showing tail “Compact and smoothly polished, this rattlesnake displays typical Aztec sculptural techniques. Both the musculature of this snake's body and its head have been sculpted in great detail. The eyes were probably once inlaid, and ferocious fangs descend from the snake's upper jaw. Snakes were powerful symbols throughout Mesoamerican history, linked with the sky, rain, and agriculture. Aztecs may have seen the snake's shedding of its skin as a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life, death, and rebirth.”
January 28, 2026 at 7:44 PM
radi0la.bsky.social
Appreciate rattlesnakes every day, but especially today. #rattlesnakeappreciationday
January 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Jan 29
For #RattlesnajeAppreciationDay: another of the ~420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Mercer on the Pa Capitol floor, many of animals: #374 “Crotalus.” That’s the scientific name for a genus of #rattlesnakes, only 1 of which is native to PA: Crotalus horridus, the Timber Rattlesnake.
Color photo of one of the original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics on the PA Capitol rotunda floor: Timber Rattlesnake. Numbered 394 and labeled “Crotalus” (the scientific name of the genus). Reference color photo of snake with caption: “Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) - a Pennsylvania responsibility species (photo c Richard Sanderson, www.flickr.com/photos/heterodo_pa)” Image via http://www.pabiologicalsurvey.org/photo-album/timber-rattlesnake-crotalus.html
January 28, 2026 at 7:44 PM
emilytaylorscience.com
It's #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay! This is a word cloud along with a tiny fraction of the comments we get from Project RattleCam (www.rattlecam.org) viewers about how the livestream has changed the way they see rattlesnakes.
January 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay on #Woodensday :
Root #Rattlesnake
USA, c.1930
Carved & painted wood with metal
6 1⁄4 x 23 1⁄8 x 17 in. (15.9 x 58.7 x 43.2 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum 1986.65.321 americanart.si.edu/artwork/root...
official museum photo of the object on light grey background rattlesnake sculpture fashioned from a large piece of twisted tree root, painted in splotches of browns and black, carved face on head end, rattle piece attached to tail end
January 28, 2026 at 11:07 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
1. #Rattlesnake
#Aztec , 1200-1520 CE
Rhyolite porphyry
2. #Snake Head
Aztec, 1200-1520 CE
Serpentine (very fitting!)
both on display at Dumbarton Oaks
#IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt
photo of sculpture on a pedestal display at museum - large coiled rattlesnake photo of sculpture mounted on display at museum - carved snake head and label: “Rattlesnakes are frequent subjects in Aztec stonework. This carving is one of the most realistic known, and was probably part of a coiled snake sculpture like those on display in this gallery. Throughout Mesoamerica, serpents were strongly associated with the sky and celestial bodies, as well as water and earth.”
January 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
#Rattlesnake Gorget, 16th c.
Mississippian artist, Tennessee
Carved shell
On display at Brooklyn Museum
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt
photo of the gorget on display at museum gallery label: “Mississippian artist Rattlesnake Gorget, 1500-1600 Tennessee Shell Collection of Christopher B. Martin, L49.3.2 The rattlesnake depicted abstractly on this shell gorget or pendant is a denizen of the underworld, a watery realm associated with death and other supernatural beings, such as the serpent and panther. For Mississippian people, their trilevel universe also included an upper world, represented by the sun, fire, and a falcon being, and a middle world of earth occupied by human beings. Whelk shells traded from the Gulf Coast region were used to make ritual ornaments worn for ceremonies intended to keep the three realms in balance.”
January 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
austinhnaturalist.bsky.social
#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay post of the 4 species I have photographed in the wild!

Western Pygmy Rattlesnake (MO)
Prairie Rattlesnake (CO)
Mojave Rattlesnake (AZ)
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (AZ)

#Herping #Wildlife #Naturalist #Snakes #Rattlesnakes #InTheWild #NaturePhotography
January 29, 2026 at 12:55 AM
9bandedcreative.bsky.social
I heard it’s #rattlesnakeappreciationday so here’s a little Pygmy rattlesnake linocut I did earlier this year!
A carved and inked linoleum block lying on top of two faded test prints of the same block on paper. The block depicts a curled up rattlesnake on a bed of oak leaves. A photo of a hand holding an art print in black ink on white paper. The print depicts the same image of the rattlesnake as the linoleum cut.
January 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
savethesnakes.org
Happy #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay! 🐍❤️

Meet June, a stunning Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) that resides at our Snake Conservation Center. June helps educate about the importance of rattlesnake conservation.
#SaveTheSnakes #WildlifeConservation

📸 River Steen
January 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
Nehat Ennu Sewet/Basket with #snake design made by a Cahuilla or Kumeyaay Ancestor, San Ysidro, CA, before 1915
Juncus, dyed juncus, deergrass
Seen on display at the Field Museum’s “Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories” exhibition in 2022
composite photo of the basket and the gallery label on display at the museum exhibition on 2022; woven basket with a design of a coiled rattlesnake with tail at center and head at edge / “My Univash/teacher, Donna Largo, had this story about a rattlesnake who was bothering the weaver. She kept shooing it away and said, ‘If you don't go away I'll put you in my basket.’ And now look, there you see it. The snake design became very popular; collectors started requesting it. You can really see the high quality, the craftsmanship of the weavers in these baskets.”
January 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
Knotted #Rattlesnake
Aztec, Postclassic 1100-1520 CE
Basalt, H 11 1/4 x W 16 in. (28.5 x 40.64 cm)
Walters Art Museum 29.2 art.thewalters.org/object/29.2/
See ALTs for more info
#IndigenousArt #MesoAmericanArt
official museum photo of the object on gradient grey background, front profile view showing head “Compact and smoothly polished, this rattlesnake displays typical Aztec sculptural techniques. Both the musculature of this snake's body and its head have been sculpted in great detail. The eyes were probably once inlaid, and ferocious fangs descend from the snake's upper jaw. Snakes were powerful symbols throughout Mesoamerican history, linked with the sky, rain, and agriculture. Aztecs may have seen the snake's shedding of its skin as a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life, death, and rebirth.” official museum photo of the object on gradient grey background, back profile view showing tail “Compact and smoothly polished, this rattlesnake displays typical Aztec sculptural techniques. Both the musculature of this snake's body and its head have been sculpted in great detail. The eyes were probably once inlaid, and ferocious fangs descend from the snake's upper jaw. Snakes were powerful symbols throughout Mesoamerican history, linked with the sky, rain, and agriculture. Aztecs may have seen the snake's shedding of its skin as a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life, death, and rebirth.”
January 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM