[Bonetools] Painted sperm whale tympanic bullae

[Christian Küchelmann]

Dear Sonia, dear list,

while searching for something completely different, I came across a picture I took 2012 in an exhibition about whales in the Museum für Naturkunde Münster, Germany (see below), which recalled our recent discussion about painted bones and resulted in last month's bonetool on the WBRG website (http://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-archive). 

The label to the exhibit describes the two painted sperm whale tympanic bullae as being dolls heads from Norway (mid 20th century). Taking up your thoughts on the expression of humour through modified bones, these examples may allow to put these thoughts even further as the items do not only express humour (or other emotions) in itself, but are obviously the surviving parts of composite objects. They may for instance have had bodies dressed with specific garments expressing typical characters and may have been used in theatre plays (not only by children). Would be a nice topic to investigate further (if there would be time...).

Best

Christian
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