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What was this object taken to “mean”? What did it symbolize for those who touched it, who held it, coveted it? Those who tell the story of this artifact? What was the object’s destination? How was it used differently as it passed from region to region, country to country? What is its form? How was the artifact made? Is it “manufactured” in some replicative process? Or is it “precious”, one-of-a-kind? How does it come to our attention? Coveted and hidden away or displayed by a private collector-royal patron or provincial merchant? Brigand? How do we come to know it? Is it an archaeological artifact, rescued from the soil, exhumed from a tomb? Where did the object come from? Its origin-an animal in the wild, nautical creature or jungle denizen? Is it perhaps vegetal? How is this “Story” a “Biography” (a Telling)? You, the audience, will craft the penultimate story of Global Ivory. Taken together, all the ivory objects represent a mosaic of impressions and scholarship about the culture of the pre-modern world. How is this “Story” different from other parts of MappaMundi?Įach object has a story to tell-its “biography”.
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