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symbolic representation of our failure to decipher > QUESTION MARKS

question marks on cards next to artefacts?

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symbols/deciphering - related to resistance to historical investigation
- paired with the symbol of the unsure/unknown >>> ???

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http://www.findagrave.com/
Birth: unknown
Death: unknown

>>> this on a page - alone!

? i like

"In the 1930s a fisherman caught in his net an old almost unrecognizable Francis Patent lifeboat that probably came from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUO0Dmip7o0

The Harpoon sounding machine is a brass depth log that works by counting the revolutions of a rotor as the log is lowered to the seabed. There are two dials, one reading from 0 to 30 fathoms, the other from 0 to 150 fathoms. The rotor is free to rotate as the log is lowered, but when the line is drawn up again a locking piece drops down and holds it in place. The log has a piece of rope attached to it and is held in its original wooden box, which has a set of printed instructions inside the lid.

Also found to be useful in performance of the "octupus loosening" (translation from Tongon), a song performed underwater in a circle of 8 to lure the aquatic delicacy towards it's human enemy. (Taken from diaries of '41)

octopus: a local delicacy. to lure, underwater (in a circle of 8) or, alternatively, a jews harp may be substituted

(n.b. note "the uncommon smallness and delicacy of their singers"- elusion to cannibalism, perhaps)

- swimming to the other side

- "Does anyone know what a barrel corall is?"

- to go through the entire winter with no food is unbelievable

- But we wound up with a constellation of evidence that was a remarkable match

- prepared them by grinding and liquefying them, subsequently extracting, purifying

- the meetings could never be confirmed. In 1948, a flyer again searched the desert

- saliva samples taken from the two nieces

- a watercolor brush found on the bank

- "This is about a couple. I wonder if they could have been attacked by a group of native americans as well?"

Mysterious 1934 Disappearance of 20-year-old artist, writer and footloose explorer who wandered the Southwest

woodcuts of Southwest landscapes

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/shadowplay/sets/224977/with/3763589100/)

Dennis Van Gerven (anthropologist) - contact. Bones removed from the crevice.

(EXCELSIOR - type)

No camping above tree line.

Ms Humphries:

"we will continue to work with charts and graphs this week, specifically tables, which is a specific type of chart; schematic charts, which help readers visualize processes or objects; and line and bar graphs."

"Next, we will learns how alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme, simile, metaphors, hyperboles and personification effects the meaning of poetry"

Benjamin G. Huphreys (american spelling):

could well be (great) uncle? Governer of Mississippi, Namesake of Humfreys County, of which 40,000 acres (160 km²) of the county are underwater, used to grow catfish - the "catfish capital". His son, also named Benjamin G. Humphreys was on the Harbors and Rivers Committee (or did she marry in at this stage - or is this her father?)

http://www.findagrave.com/

Birth:	unknown
Death:	unknown
Inscription: Child of Mrs. Maggie Humphries
Burial: Friendship Cemetery Columbus Lowndes County Mississippi, USA Plot: Lot 96

"I think our cat might be a bit luckier than some of the other poor messages on this site" .Maggie Humphries Ipswich (circa 1940s - cat got a virus with no symptoms)

Able Seaman Humphries-

Birth: unknown

Death: sep. 20 1920

relative? brother/ twin?

- ... Hislop, Welsh and Humphries (architects) collection, Glasgow. --> The Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers, Princess Park, Erskine.

'Here is always somewhere else':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t639h7Uzv0k

title page lifted from the Museum of Jurassic Technology. photocopy onto silk

book of courage for the lifeboatmen

fig. 1,,, For reference: Marcel Broodthaers

A Voyage on the North Sea


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQPKG1efWGg

'The ostensibly related subject of both book and film consists mutually of 19th and 20th century nautical images including: 1. photographic reproductions and details of an amateur’s 19th century painting of a fleet of fishing ships and 2. photographs of a contemporary sailboat. Bringing together film, books, ephemera, drawing, and the artist’s original maquette for the book, this specific exhibition sets out to map the local coordinates of A Voyage on the North Sea’s maiden launch on January 28, 1974 at the London offices of Petersburg Press.'

'Both book and film components of A Voyage on the North Sea deliver a befuddling, progress-defying narrative, pairing images of an amateur’s 19th century painting of fishing vessels with photographs of a 20th century sailboat. The film is structured like a book with 15 paginated titles interspersed between static images of the boats while the layout of the book, on the other hand, is structured like the comparative grid of the art historian’s slide show. Broodthaers’ complex dialogue between painting, photograph, book and film plays hide-and-seek with the original, exploring a frustrating journey through the conditions of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.'

See also: Departement Des Aigles

around the world in 1805, inc. 'Friendly islands' (found map, annotated)