Death is viewed much differently today than it was in the past: we rush to close the coffin containing the remains of a loved one and try to deny the fact that we are all going to die. But as a museum containing the remains […]
Month: October 2016
Txamatxama feather adornment
The txamatxama at Moesgård Museum, EA41-0026. Photo Astrid Kieffer-Døssing, 2015. Join us as guest blogger Astrid Kieffer-Døssing, who holds an MA in Sustainable Heritage Management from Aarhus University, tells us about the marvellous txamatxama feather adornment of the Katxuyana. A braided base and three […]
Binoculars: Do you see what I see?
If you look at a child’s depiction of a person, the head is – more often than not – prevalent. And in the centre of the face, are the two eyes. Children are fast learners; they pay attention when their parents pass on important knowledge […]
Door from Ugandan refugee camp
A bright red door signalling that the owner of the house is a big fan of ’MANCHESTAR UNITED’ is probably not the first thing, you would expect to see, when visiting a home in a former camp for internally displaced people. Yet here it is. […]
Head-hunter Skull: Trophy from the Philippines
Head-hunter Skull: Trophy from the Philippines A man is killed in the mountain-forest region near Banawe in the Philippines. His killer was of the Ifugao tribe, but the murderer victim did not know his killer. Many years later, his skull was collected as an ethnographic […]
