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A Balinese shadow puppet figure representing a pistol, 1978, from our new work of short fiction "A Satisfying View."

A self-portrait by Captain Cook's navigator Tupaia showing his gift of a lobster. Read more in Marissa Nicosia's "Lobsters in the Archive." 

How the St. Louis Baby Tooth Study reconciled the domestic ritual of childhood tooth loss with the geopolitics of nuclear annihilation. Read more. 

An image from Bernard Rudofsky's criminally underrated 1948 book Are Clothes Modern?

New article: Don't Cry for Me, Elanthia: an Archaeology of Gemstone III. 

The strangest gravestone in Jamaica and the man it commemorates. Read more here.

Introducing "In Motion," the 8th issue of the Appendix. Read about it here. 

Soviet Russia: the first country to send pistols and machetes into space. 

"In November 2001, Pasfield’s son’s third-grade class in Ann Arbor, Michigan, started a unit about a Great Lakes people called the Potawatomi. They visited the Great Lakes Indians dioramas in what was then called the Exhibit Museum of Natural History in Ann Arbor for their final activity. Afterward, the boy illustrated the cover of his folder that contained all the worksheets from his unit on the Potawatomi Indians. He drew three deep graves with skeletons at the bottom and tombstones that said “R.I.P.” “This was devastating to me as a mother,” Pasfield says, “because my son is an enrolled tribal member.” Read more in our new article on indigenous histories and dioramas by Francie Diep. 

Sunglasses in 1807 (no, this is not photoshopped!). 

Psychology pioneer William James looking terrifically anachronistic in Brazil, 1865. 

Lord Byron's carved signature in the dungeon of the Château de Chillon, 1816. 

New article: How a colonial past shaped Star Trek’s utopian futures.