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Forensic sculpture and the uncannily human clay heads

"There is a point when there are suddenly twice as many people in the class."

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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.

  • Long read

Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

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  • An elephant and her calf ambushed by African men with spears. Lithograph.
  • Men engaged in various activities: walking, jumping, digging, throwing spears, stretching; sequences. Photographs.
  • Four young Maasai men, carrying spears, standing beside a train. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Two men carrying spears and a hunting horn in their pursuit of boar. Etching.
  • Men on horseback with spears and long lances are killing lions. Etching after Antonio Tempesta.
  • An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.
  • Hounds chasing otters into the reach of men holding spears in a river. Etching by W. S. Howitt.
  • Men with spears walking past tree with figures sitting in the shade. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.
  • Four poles and spears decorated with the hand of Fatima, scarves and other items. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The execution of twelve mutineers at Peshawar; guards on horseback and guards holding spears; mountains in the background. Wood engraving, 1857.
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