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A lukasa (memory Board) Luba people, DR of Congo. Lukasa are used in oral retelling of history in Luba culture. The master who has skill & knowledge to read the lukasa will use it as mnemonic device, feeling the beads, shells, & pegs to recount history & solve current problems.
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Mid 20th century Ceremonial Belt of a Medicine Man from the Fang people of Gabon. The belt includes amulets made from animal bones, ivory and metal and filled leather pouches
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Burke and Hare Murder Dolls In the late 1820s, two men in Edinburgh, William Hare and William Burke, killed 16 people, mostly by smothering, and sold their wares to a Dr. Knox at the University. 1/3
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Burke and Hare Murder Dolls Later, a young boy playing in a cave, came across a collection of 17 carved wooden dolls, about the size of a finger, each in its own tiny coffin. The dolls greatly resembled the victims of Burke & Hare. 2/3
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Burke and Hare Murder Dolls DNA tests on the macabre toys against the remains of Burke yielded no results. Only 8 of the 17 are still known to exist, and can be seen at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 3/3
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Mary Lieb - Cell floor decorated with torn strips of cloth, patterns ripped out from bed sheets,1894. The Prinzhorn Collection. She was hospitalized in the Heidelberg clinic, diagnosed with “periodic mania”.
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Gabriel Orozco - installation at the Guggenheim, 2013. Made up of thousands of items of flotsam and jetsam that the artist gathered at a protected coastal biosphere in Baja California Sur, Mexico, where flows of industrial and commercial waste from across the Pacific Ocean arrive
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