John C. Mendall's 19th C. School Notebook Filled with All Sorts of Stuff! man with animals and these fantastic serpentine blue

and these fantastic serpentine blue arms and graceful legs

with colored tissue paper glued down for the frame

mainly from the Tantric traditions of the Indian religions

perhaps it held his preparatory notes and research for it

but occasionally the graphics on something will just jump out and call to me--and really

John C. Mendall's 19th C. School Notebook Filled with All Sorts of Stuff! man with animals and these fantastic serpentine blueThe speckled blue paper cover of this notebook drew me to it, but it's the bird drawing on the inside of the front cover that sold me, with the words "Bird of the air No. 2" trailing down. (My first photo is a composite of cover and first inside page.) Having now spent a little time with it's pages, I've determine that the John C. Mendell who kept it was a kindred spirit a terrible note taker it looks to me, instead filling the pages with names and