Art, Symbol & Imagination
Kissing the Black Stone
A company of robed figures presses towards the dark hanging fabric at the edge of a great structure. The original caption names Kissing the Black Stone within the book’s historical and fraternal narrative.
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Photographer not identified. "Kissing the Black Stone" [editorial title]. In The Book of Boumi and Story of the Mystic Shrine, Raymond Sidney Tompkins; edited by Whitney W. Jones. Boumi Temple jubilee volume; copyright 1934, undated edition, Boumi Temple. Source scan leaf 34. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0493-0033
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
A historical image from an American fraternal organisation’s commemorative volume. Its theatrical desert imagery reflects the organisation’s period visual language.
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Photographer not identified. Kissing the Black Stone. The Book of Boumi and Story of the Mystic Shrine. Scan leaf 34. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0493-0033