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How we bury our children

Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.

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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.

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My important, ridiculous nose

The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.

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  • Swans swimming in a lake. Etching after F. Barlow.
  • Swans and storks on water and land. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Swans and storks on land and water. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Swans swimming together and bickering in a lake. Engraving by H. Le Roy.
  • Swans, ducks and other domesticated fowl in the park of a chateau. Etching by P. Casteels after himself.
  • Two swans bickering at the water's edge. Etching after F. Barlow.
  • Storks and swans on land and water. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Storks and swans on land and water. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Three Greek pouring vessels; left, red-figured vessel; middle, black vessel with a handle; right, protocorinthian vessel (ca. 670 B.C.) decorated with black-figured swans. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • Ming herbal (painting): Swan
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