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The Palauan Bai
The bai functioned as a meeting house for the governing elders where they were assigned seats along the walls, according to rank and title.
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“The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh’s chrome yellow sunflowers or punk’s fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.”
This book impressed me recently as an odd source of rabbit holes
Theres a quote in there about a guy that sold mummies to make pigments with goes something like “i sold my last arm in 1945 for 5 dollars. I kinda wish id held out for more” or something like that
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grohl in a hole? or dave in a …
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