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<p>Dear Christian,</p>
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<p>Thanks for these. They are just like the example from Hull. I wonder, though if they are actually puppet or doll heads. It would be interesting to know how they were attached to the rest of the object. I don't think the 'head' from Hull had any other modification
to enable attachment to anything. Also it is a very dense, heavy material for a puppet or dolls head (<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">which
would be</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> better made in
wood or </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span><font color="#222222" face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">papier
mâché) </span></font></span></span></span>so dense that fragments of bullae have been mistaken for stone or fossil bone. <span><span><span><font color="#222222" face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It might be worth
chasing these questions with the </span>museum<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> but my money is on them being 'stand alone' pieces.</span></font></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span><font color="#222222" face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Has anyone else got any thoughts on this?</span></font></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span><font color="#222222" face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sonia</span></font></span></span></span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Christian Küchelmann <info@knochenarbeit.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 06 September 2015 08:12<br>
<b>To:</b> BONETOOLS; Sonia O'Connor<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Painted sperm whale tympanic bullae</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Dear Sonia, dear list,<br>
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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 (<a href="http://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-archive">http://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-archive</a>).
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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...).<br>
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