Non Political Things That Make You Go Hmmm.. *reborn* (Part 9)

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Hmm… I see a horse head towards the top, a gorilla on the left, both watching the nekkid rears of the two ladies in the center ride… “something” :laughing:

sort of like when someone who has over $5K in seeds and, just bought a $500.00 pack because he claims he can’t control himself, shows up in topics where assistance is being given to someone in need, posits that they are in need too and, asks everyone on the forum to consider also helping them because they are on government assistance and are living on a limited budget :upside_down_face: :melting_face: :raised_hands:

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Not on public display: A Peruvian elongated skull with metal surgically implanted after returning from battle, estimated to be from about 2000 years ago. One of our more interesting and oldest pieces in the collection.
We don’t have a ton of background on this piece, but we do know he survived the procedure! Based on the broken bone surrounding the repair and you can see that it’s tightly fused together. It was a successful surgery.
The Inca were well known for their use of gold, silver, copper, bronze, and other metals. Drawing much of their inspiration and style in metalworking from Chimú art, the Incas used metals for utilitarian purposes as well as ornaments and decorations.
The Maya primarily used gold, silver, and copper as metals, primarily for jewelry and decorative items, with gold being considered the most precious metal and often associated with high social status; they also utilized bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, to a lesser extent.

That the ancient Mexicans or Aztec people were familiar with the metallurgy of gold, silver and copper, the process of hammering, fusing and casting, there is no doubt, and that they understood soldering and even the plating of gold and silver on copper is suggested by the specimens in the museum collections.

The Toltecs primarily worked with copper, gold, and sometimes silver; they were known to create metal objects like ornaments, weapons, and tools using these metals, often employing techniques like hammering, casting, and alloying to create various pieces, with copper being the most commonly used metal amongst Mesoamerican civilizations including the Toltecs.

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Who is the “We?” Is the skull in a private collection or housed in a public museum, simply not currently on display? Or perhaps somewhere else?

While the circumstances of the injury may be different, this reminds me of trepanning.

Here’s a small detail of an Hieronymus Bosch painting that displays trepanning.

And a neolithic skull that was trepanned.

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This is an interesting article on trepanning, and it includes a short section on Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

Thank you for posting that. :+1:

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eh…no…
not by breed- but type:
Shorthair
longhair
hairless
rex
Oriental
flat-faced
mini

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A movie was made about this dog…

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@Lady.Zandra63 I thought this was a literal interpretation free zone!?

:rofl:

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I think the glazing of ‘kinder schokobons’ is also made of/from bugs. They taste great though… Was a bummer when I read it lol

I ate crickets pretty recently and they were really not bad.

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