In the beginning of October our last blog post presented a pair of fluorescent green foam shoes from Tanzania. Through a conversation with curator Thea Skaanes*, the reader was invited to ponder the importance of shoes in both every day and ritual life. Today, we […]
“THE END IS NEAR” reads the text on this Zambian clay pot. Why this doomsday message? Because the pot was made in Zambia at the end of the year 1999, when the world was swept up into Y2K panic and fear that the year 2000 […]
Quite frankly, we were a little spooked by this item! Even more so when we discovered that beneath the layers of clay and paint, is the real human skull of a specifically important ancestor of the Sepik province in Papua New Guinea. According to Jens […]
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