A culture with an intense need and desire to make crystal skulls and shrunken heads...
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A culture with an intense need and desire to make crystal skulls and shrunken heads... because they speak to some cultural need, but since they are taboo the artifacts need to be blamed on other people.
They are fakes, but as they age they are also now artifacts, just not representing what people initially claimed.
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A culture with an intense need and desire to make crystal skulls and shrunken heads... because they speak to some cultural need, but since they are taboo the artifacts need to be blamed on other people.
They are fakes, but as they age they are also now artifacts, just not representing what people initially claimed.
I don't know there is something almost funny about it. "It's horrible how they were so obsessed with death... look at this glittering skull! Oh no here is another one! I must have that one too... these people were sick and driven to collect and worship such objects... so sad... yes put it in the display case right there... thank you."
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I don't know there is something almost funny about it. "It's horrible how they were so obsessed with death... look at this glittering skull! Oh no here is another one! I must have that one too... these people were sick and driven to collect and worship such objects... so sad... yes put it in the display case right there... thank you."
@futurebird There is a good episode of podcast "Stuff the British Stole" called "The Headhunters" which goes into detail on some of those! Great premise for a podcast overall - choose an object and find out how it got there and who it *really* belongs to.
Stuff The British Stole
Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today the Empire's loot sits in museums, galleries, private collections and burial sites with polite plaques. But its history is often messier than the plaques suggest. In each episode of this global smash hit podcast, Walkley award-winning journalist, author and genetic potluck, Marc Fennell, takes you on the wild, evocative, sometimes funny, often tragic adventure of how these stolen treasures got to where they live today. These objects will ultimately help us see the modern world — and ourselves — in a different light. This is a co-production between the ABC and CBC Canada.
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