Museology (MUSEUMS) with Ronnie Cline
Ologies with Alie Ward
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How to Make a Shrunken Head
Sylvester the mummy is thought to be a wild west outlaw who was shot in the gut and quickly embalmed an arsenic By a con man named soapy. He's not for sale, but evidently it is legal to buy and display Human remains however birth control pills are not available over the counter and you can't buy wine coolers in some counties. These were ceremoniously made in the Amazon rainforest They were thought to harness an enemy's power and then the tourism trade caused a bump in sales both real and of fakes in the early 1900s.
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