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jaketeachesdeath · 4 months
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Good Morning!
Al had travelled all the way to Salem MA to search for dead things which you would think would be ideal to no avail.
Aside from a few antlers elsewhere the only place Al found deads was in the @peabodyessex and accidentally might I add. The initial search was to see live Bats! The display is on til September I think so check it out if you can.
We'll go in in more detail on the next post!
19/11/23
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team-ramses · 6 months
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Ramses looked a little sheepish. It’s hard to tell, I admit, but I have been making of study of his expressions, such as they are. “Sheepish” is two quick blinks and a slight compression of his lips.
Nefret Forth, Letter Collection B from The Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters
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sandovers · 1 year
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currently coveting the folio society’s edition of murakami’s norwegian wood
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sweet-reverie · 1 year
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The Sun and The Moon by Hogan McLaughlin & Bill Crisafi
Currently on display at the Peabody Essex Museum as part of the exhibit entitled Alchemical in Salem, MA
I went to the opening launch party and they were so beautiful in person.
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Book 385
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
Peabody Essex Museum / Smithsonian American Art Museum / Yale University Press 2007
Published to accompany a traveling retrospective of Joseph Cornell’s (1903-1972) work in 2007 and 2008, this book is a beautiful tribute to an artist whose work defies easy categorization. Of the two large-format books I own about Cornell, I would have to give the edge to this one in terms of which is the better book. First off, this one is beautifully bound in full red cloth. Secondly, it offers much more of Cornell’s illuminating source material, some rarer pieces that are not usually reproduced, and even includes some previously unpublished art.
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grrrlsinner · 2 months
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the first full moon of the year and it’s in LEO BAYBEE (my moon sign!!!) 🌞 here is a cute lil mood board to celebrate 🎈
(GE internet archive ad, first witchy ritual in my new apartment, some wholesome vandalism, and Meg who is an Aqua Sun/Leo Moon)
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nyonyia · 4 months
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awww this helmet is so cute
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gaywario420 · 1 year
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hmm yes. i think i'll start ranking movies that i like 👍 ill probably prioritise my personal love for the movie over the actual cinematic artistry at play for the most-part. im gonna spend a LOT of my summer holiday catching up with my watchlist...
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fatehbaz · 1 year
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In January 2023, ProPublica has published a new and detailed report on the failure of United States museums and universities to repatriate human remains of Indigenous peoples, even when required by law.
Just ten institutions “hold about half of the Native American remains that have not been returned to tribes” as required by the 1990 law Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. As of December 2022, about “200 institutions [...] had repatriated none of the remains of more than 14,000 Native Americans in their collections.” ProPublica has investigated whether or not these institutions have complied with the 1990 law, and, in their opening paragraphs, they have “found that a small group of institutions and government bodies has played an outsized role in the law’s failure.”
By the 1870s, as the academic field of archaeology soared in popularity, some of the most prestigious institutions in the US were relying on the US military to extract Indigenous items for their collections. For example, “the Smithsonian Institution struck a deal with U.S. Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman to pay each of his soldiers up to $500 — or roughly $14,000 in 2022 dollars — for items such as clothing, weapons and everyday tools sent back to Washington.”
Meanwhile: “Frederic Ward Putnam, who was appointed curator of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology in 1875, commissioned and funded excavations that would become some of the earliest collections at Harvard, the American Museum of Natural History and the Field Museum. He also helped establish the anthropology department and museum at UC Berkeley — which holds more human remains taken from Native American gravesites than any other U.S. institution that must comply with NAGPRA.”
By the beginning of the 20th century, local museums in the Midwest and Southeast (Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee) were obsessed with acquiring “moundbuilders” artifacts and initiated another wave of extraction. For example, most of the collections of the University of Kentucky’s William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology were taken during excavations funded by the federal government in the 1930s as part of the New Deal’s job-creation program, and although more than 80% of the museum’s holdings are “subject to return under federal law,” the museum “has yet to repatriate any of the roughly 4,500 human remains it has reported to the federal government.”
While the “Smithsonian Institution today holds in storage the remains of roughly 10,000 people, more than any other U.S. museum,” the Smithsonian actually “reports its repatriation progress under a different law” and therefore “does not publicly share information about what it has yet to repatriate with the same detail.”
According to ProPublica’s analysis, a major excuse given by institutions is that their collections are “culturally unidentifiable.” They report that “many institutions have interpreted” the words cultural affiliation “so narrowly that they’ve been able to dismiss” tribes’ claims. In other words, these museums claim that, because they cannot reliably trace a lineage between the original source of the remains and contemporary recognized tribes, they therefore cannot return remains. In this way, ProPublica says, that “[t]hroughout the 1990s, institutions including the Ohio History Connection and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville thrawted the repatriation process by categorizing everything” as “culturally unidentifiable.”
However, many tribes and their advocates claim this is a silly excuse. For example, the “University of Alabama Museums is among the institutions that have forced tribes into lengthy disputes over repatriation.” And tribes “had tried for more than a decade to repatriate Moundville ancestors.” By “October 2021, leaders from the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Chickasaw Nation, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida brought the issue to the federal NAGPRA Review Committee” and the “tribes eventually forced the largest repatriation in NAGPRA’s history” when “the university agreed to return the remains of 10,245 ancestors.”
Quoted excerpts above, and all graphics and excerpts below, from the report:
Logn Jaffe, Mary Hudetz, Ash Ngu, and Graham Lee Brewer. “America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains.” ProPublica. 11 January 2023. (Illustrations by Weshoyot Alvitre for ProPublica. Design and development by Anna Donlan. Asia Fields and Brooke Stephenson contributed reporting.)
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fashionsfromhistory · 11 months
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Dress from the “Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body” Collection
Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garcons
Spring/Summer 1997
Peabody Essex Museum (Object Number: 2014.45.54.1-5A-F)
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stardust-swan · 9 months
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How to Be a Real Life Mermaid 🌊🧜‍♀️🐚
The Look
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🐚 Wear sea foam green, aquamarine, teal, ocean blue, soft grey, lilac, periwinkle, emerald, pale gold, white, deep blue, and turquoise
🐚 Pick flowy fabrics such as taffeta, chiffon, linen, silk, muslin, and sequined fabrics that resemble fish scales
🐚 Choose garments like maxi dresses, flowy skirts, bandeau off-the-shoulder tops, tank tops, soft scarves used as tops, shell clutches, woven bags, and pretty beaded sandals
🐚 Accessorise with jewellery made from pearls, sea glass, seashells, turquoise, aquamarine, opals, gold that resembles the sun glinting on the sea, and silver that reminds one of the metallic sheen of fish scales. Examples of accessories you can wear are bangles, anklets, layered necklaces, and pearl earrings
🐚 Makeup Ideas: eyeshadow in nudes like a sandy beach, greens and blues like the sea, or lavender and pink like a coral reef, shimmery highlight, dewy skin, coral pink lipstick, and seashell pink lipgloss
🐚 Hair Ideas: loose curls that look like ocean waves, fishtail plaits, green and blue hair dye, pearl hairclips, and sea salt hairspray. Brush your hair with a pretty wide-tooth comb.
The Lifestyle
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🐚 Listen to songs such as Martha's Harbour by All About Eve, No Ordinary Love by Sade, Come Into the Water by Mitski, Pearl Diver by Mitski, Mariners Apartment Complex by Lana Del Rey, and Call of the Sea by Claudie Mackula (a longer mermaid playlist is here).
🐚 You can also listen to the sounds of the ocean, like whale song or waves crashing on the beach
🐚 Watch movies and TV shows such as Aquamarine, Splash, The Little Mermaid, H20: Just Add Water, Mr Peabody and the Mermaid, Miranda (1948), Mermaid Melody Pitchi Pitchi, Ponyo, Barbie in a Mermaid Tale, Barbie: The Pearl Princess, Neptune's Daughter (1914), A Daughter of the Gods (1916), Queen of the Sea (1918), Venus of the South Seas (1924), and Magic Island (1995)
🐚 Read books, fairytales, and poems such as The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, The Mermaid Handbook by Carolyn Turgeon, Mermaids: The Myths, Legends, and Lore by Skye Alexander, A Daughter of the Sea by Amy Le Feuvre, Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, The Mermaid by Alfred Lord Tennyson, and The Sea-Child by Katherine Mansfield
🐚 Mermaids are renowned for their beautiful siren song, so sing sweetly and brightly as often as you feel like it
🐚 Make your self smell like the ocean by using a deodorant like Old Spice Deep Sea, and perfumes like L by Lolita Lempicka, Acqua di Gioia, Salt Air by Skylar, Fleur de Corail by Lolita Lempicka, Seahorse by Zoologist, Nymphéas by Kismet Olfactive, Salina by Laborattorio Olfattivo, Alien Mirage by Mugler, Very Sexy Sea by Victoria's Secret, 20,000 Flowers Under the Sea by Tokyomilk, Nebbia Spessa by Filippo Sorcinelli, Tiziana Terenzi's Sea Stars Collection, Chant d'Extase by Nina Ricci, Sirena by Floris, Squid by Zoologist, and Orto Parisi Megamare (be aware that the latter two suit a dark siren who lures men to their deaths more than a sweet mermaid princess).
🐚 Make your home smell like the deep sea too, with sea salt scented diffusers and candles such as Yankee Candle Sea Minerals, Yankee Candle Seaside Woods, or Jo Malone Wood Sage and Sea Salt
🐚 Home Decor Ideas: silk sheets in blue, grey, and sea green, seashell jewellery trays, homemade terrariums, jellyfish embroidery, seashell candles, beaded curtains made from string and shells, paintings of maritime scenes, glass vases filled with layers of sand, seashells, and faux pearls, seashell shaped soap dishes, rattan furniture, woven baskets, treasure chests to keep your valuables in, mermaid figurines, a seashell or jellyfish mobile, a bowl filled with seashells, a glass bottle filled with ocean water or with a love letter inside to replicate a message in a bottle, mosaics with marine motifs like seahorses and shells, even an aquarium with colourful fish if you are able to care for them
🐚 Spend lots of time around near bodies of water, swimming in it to connect with your inner mermaid, or just walking in it and feeling the sand beneath your feet
🐚 Collect seashells and pretty pieces of sea glass thar wash up on the shore
🐚 Watch synchronised swimming, or even learn it yourself
🐚 Go diving, snorkeling, or mermaiding
🐚 Visit aquariums to see beautiful exotic fish and learn more about the ocean
🐚 Do your best to be sustainable; make the world a cleaner place for your fishy friends to live in. If possible, attend a beach clean-up group local to your area to help pick up litter
🐚 Carry a haircomb and hand mirror with you at all times (you can hotglue seashells and faux pearls on the back of the mirror to make it even more like a mermaid's treasure)
🐚 Watch documentaries and read books on the ocean, marine life, and nautical myths and legends
🐚 Enjoy snacking on seaweed soup, coconut water, and Guylian seashell chocolates
🐚 Take luxurious baths with dead sea salt, seaweed masks, small white bath bombs that resemble pearls, a coconut scented candle, and calming music
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garadinervi · 11 months
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«Visible Language» – The Journal for Research on the Visual Media of Language Expression, Volume IX, Number 4, Autumn 1975, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Cover: An lncan quipu in the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (full issue pdf here)
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team-ramses · 6 months
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I knew perfectly well whose idea that “rescue” expedition had been. I leaned forward and brushed the curls back from Ramses’s forehead. He hates it when I do that. “You meant well,” I admitted. “But I find it difficult to forgive you for bringing me back in time to dine with those boring people.”
Nefret Forth in Letter Collection B from The Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters
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harvardfineartslib · 6 months
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The second postcard for International Postcard Week is from Salem, Massachusetts. This house was called the “Pineapple House” because of the pineapple decoration above the doorway. The large Georgian house was built by Captain Thomas Poynton sometime between 1740 and 1750. While the house was believed to have been demolished sometime after 1923, and the door frame with pineapple pediment was donated to the Essex Institute (now the Peabody Essex Museum) and installed in the Phillips Library there. We don't know if that’s still in the case. Maybe @Peabodyessex can let us know?
Salem, Massachusetts 7 Brown Street Publisher: Architectural Post Card Co., Philadelphia, United States Part of Postcard Collection of the Fine Arts Library HOLLIS number: 8001210746
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The idea that "no man is an island" seems to be one of the central thematic ideas of Midst. Ideas of how individuals impact society and society impacts individuals, the need of individuals for community, and the strength people can get from togetherness and support are all major themes across the work.
To the first point, how individuals impact society is something the Trust obsessively tries to enumerate and quantify. Ideally, prosocial actions will accrue Valor and asocial actions will accrue Caenum but we've seen how the Trust's definition of "asocial actions" includes anything that places any amount of burden on society like buying food or accepting help. We've also seen how the Trust has effected the individuals that live within it. Phineas' desperation that eventually drove him to torture Sherman Guthrie and Spahr's obsessive perfectionism are both the result of how the Trust constantly pushes individuals to keep working and keep working to accrue Valor and to avoid Caenum by any means necessary. Even Lark, who left the Trust 50 years ago, still frames the morality of actions in terms of objective good and objective bad, of Valor and Caenum, only she believes they cannot ever cancel each other out as a result of her experience living on the run after murdering Maximilian Loxlee.
On the topic of Lark, and coming to the second point, as much as she tries to deny that she desires genuine human connection even she eventually comes to realize that it was this desire and need that lead her to murder Fuze Peabody. She'd built connections in Midst; with Sherman, with Tzila, even with Landlord. And even as she kept them at a distance these connections were valuable enough to her to kill for. Likewise, Phineas and Spahr were/are so miserable in the Trust because their social situation and relentless pursuit of Valor has resulted in them lacking in significant social relationships outside of each other and even that relationship is heavily mediated by the Upper Trust. Weepe, despite being generally extremely self-centred and having gleefully sold everyone in the Black Candle Cabaret to the Trust for a payday still calls out to Saskia as he's being tortured by Imelda Goldfinch, because despite everything he was willing to do to her she's still someone he had a genuine connection to.
And these connections are shown to give the characters of Midst a strength they wouldn't have on their own. Phineas and Spahr are experiencing parallel character arcs but as of the last time we saw each of them Phineas was doing better than ever and Spahr was doing worse than ever. Something which is in no small part due to the fact that Phineas was able to get support and help in leaving the Trust and navigating morality beyond the Trust's teachings from the Mothers, Baron Kozma Lazlo, and Lark while Spahr has been left to get increasingly uncomfortable with the Trust on his own. Lark's attempts to evade capture by the Trust and rescue Sherman from it would not be progressing nearly so well (or really at all) if she hadn't listened to her precognitive abilities when they told her to stick with Phineas. He was the reason she was able to get off Midst before the Consectors came looking for her and remain informed and fed on Kozma's ship; now in the Highest Light he's her source of supplies and disguise. And Phineas for his part needs Lark, too. She constantly challenges him on his stance and convictions and as a result he's becoming ever more certain in his choices.
Midst as a work is focused on the individual within a collective and the importance of that collective to the individual. It is any wonder, then, that the most significant antagonistic force in the piece is one which uses the fact that individuals exist in societies and impact each other as a way to create such a horrific system as the Trust.
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vampiremeerkat · 2 months
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Can you do a Dreamworks movies ranking? Thanks.
Uh. Alright, I'll try, but I haven't seen the entire collection and most movies I watched only once like 10 years ago. Or longer. This is a list of distant memories, so I can't offer anyone a detailed explanation except "I remember feeling really uninvested during/disappointed after watching".
1. The Prince of Egypt 2. Megamind 3. Shrek 2 4. How to Train Your Dragon 5. Madagascar 6. Shrek 7. Chicken Run 8. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas 9. Joseph: King of Dreams 10. The Road to El Dorado 11. Antz 12. Shark Tale 13. Kung Fu Panda 14. Madagascar 2 15. Monsters vs Aliens 16. Shrek 4 17. Trolls 18. Over the Hedge 19. The Boss Baby 20. How to Train Your Dragon 2 21. Bee Movie 22. Spirit 23. Kung Fu Panda 2 24. The Croods 25. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 26. Shrek 3 27. Mr. Peabody and Sherman 28. Puss in Boots 29. Flushed Away 30. Turbo 31. The Croods 2 32. Madagascar 3 33. The Rise of the Guardians
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