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Chinese pillow history
What is the ideal pillow? In Chinese culture, the ideal shifted over time, and views on a good sleep also reveal attitudes about studying, love, food and drink.
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Grease
Stains on your pillow are evidence of a late-night sebum party in your head.
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Thousands of years of women’s pain
Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.
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The side effects of lithium mining
Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.
Catalogue
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University Children's Hospital, Vienna: a storage space for bed linen, pillows and mattresses. Photograph, 1921.
Date: 1921Reference: 28673i
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Airing the beds, Bougainville, Solomon Islands. The broad planks serve as beds with short lengths of bamboo as pillows.
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A lady reclines on pillows flanked by three female assistants and one male. Engraving by an Indian artist, 1800s.
Reference: 583049i
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Africa: a display of Zulu shields, mats, pillows, smoking horns, monchies, spoons, baskets, tschinala and amas pots, and beadwork. Albumen print.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 534331i
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A sick old woman, sitting supported by pillows as a skeleton pounces aiming his spear at her eyes. Woodcut by Tobias Stimmer, 1580.
Stimmer, Tobias, 1539-1584.Date: [1580]Reference: 37458iPart of: Der Ander Theil dess neuwen Kunstbuchs in welchem Reissen unnd Malen zu lehrnen allen Kunstliebhabenden zu Nutz an Tag geben, durch die kunstreichen und weit berühmten Jost Ammon und Tobias Stimmer