[Bonetools] Painted sperm whale tympanic bullae

[Alice Choyke]

The doll heads actually look striking like the Punch and Judy puppet heads!.

Alice

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Christian Küchelmann <info at knochenarbeit.de>
wrote:

> 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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