Primordial Landscapes: Iceland Revealed

Feo Pitcairn Fine Art
June 30, 2015
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Feo Pitcairn Fine Art

Location: On the edge of a road in Central Northern Iceland.


A beinakerling (bane-a-kettling) is a stone pile built gradually by travelers, who each place a rock onto the pile for good luck. This ancient tradition is still kept today. Historically, an animal bone, wrapped in a sentiment-inscribed piece of skin or paper, was often added. This image is one of 41 photographs taken by Feodor Pitcairn on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition, “Primordial Landscapes: Iceland Revealed.”