thenearsightedmonkey: Dear Students, What did kids drawings look like in 1240? This. Scratched
thenearsightedmonkey:Dear Students,What did kids drawings look like in 1240? This.Scratched on birch bark and discovered in Novgorod, Russia (via Wikimedia)“The most famous of the birch bark texts are the scribblings of a boy named Onfim. Estimated to have been between six and seven years old when he made them, Onfim idly drew himself as a grown warrior and disguised as a beast; the aspirational art isn’t much different from the drawings of children adorning refrigerators today. Often these seemingly inconsequential relics don’t survive the passage of time.”One of the Onfim birch bark drawings, showing the boy disguised as a beast (1240–60) (via gramoty.ru)You can view the archive of Novgorod birch bark manuscripts online Source: hyperallergic.com -- source link