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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Jewelled skeleton, discovered in the Roman Catacombs, late 16th century.
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Varna Necropolis, a burial site in Bulgaria, with some of the world's oldest gold jewellery
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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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A nasothek is a collection of the broken noses of statues and busts.
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Louise Bourgeois: Red Room (Child) (1994)
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Tony Cragg - Cumulus, 1998
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Jason Rhoades, My Brother/Brancuzi, 1995.
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1890s photo showing a variety of armor and weapons typically used by samurai.
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Sconce C. 1630 Collection of Louis XIV
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Chinese lotus shoe?
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South German anatomical model of an eye, probably late 17th century
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Kidney stones, diameter 5 cm. Photo via Maria Verstappen.
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buttons
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World Speed Skating Champion Oscar Mathisen (1888-1954)
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Shaman’s Drum
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Ojime beads, carved 19th century,
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Eva Hesse
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Gabi Mann - Birds collection.
Eight-year-old girl Gabi Mann feeds the crows in her garden - and they bring her gifts in return.
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A sampling of prosthetics from the 1800 to the mid 1930s
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Tutankhamun's tomb. Protection for the dead Pharaoh. The jackal-headed god of the dead Anubis guarding the treasure chamber of the tomb.
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Tibetan Musical Notation
Three leaves from a Tibetan musical score used in Buddhist monastic ritual with the notation for voice, drums, trumpets, horns and cymbals.
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Feet, Indian, 18th c (?)
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Wings (fragments from adoration of the Christ-child) c1850/1900
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Bread Hands by Marc Quinn, 2019
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Vivian Maier, Scrapped packing cases n.d.
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Stanhopes : Microscopically reduced, transparent photographs on a magnifying glass, fitted into a decorative object. The term “Stanhope” comes from the inventor of the Stanhope Lens, Lord Charles Stanhope (1753-1816)
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Seven balloon factory molds, ca 1940's, tallest is 10"
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Earthenware models of human heads used in Phrenology, manufactured in Manchester, England, 1831
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Thomas Kiefer, Rosaries confiscated from undocumented migrants by US border patrol agents, ca 2014 (?), (appeared in print 2017)
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A collection of plaster casts of the hands of the Apollo astronauts, NASA
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Madame Tussaud’s Wax Works stores "retired" exhibits
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Hopscotch designs, USA
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Viking combs
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Keys, Italian, 15th century Iron
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Drawing or Printmaking set. Made in Paris, circa 1690
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Jan Henderikse - Untitled, 1961 - Assembly of objects on panel (61 x 61cm)
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