It's that book. You know, the one that used to be a person.

[beboots]

 Sometime in April, I think, I'm going to organize an excursion for some friends of mine (history dorks, all), which I want to entitle "A Day of the Dead at the U of A". Essentially, it's going to amount to making an appointment to visiting the mummy (we have a mummy! The only one in Western Canada! His nickname is Horace - AKA Horus)... and then,

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[kuiskata]

We should totally tour all of these macabre things at the U of A! (Also, creepy. I...kind of want to peer closely at the human skin book and see if I can make out, you know, the skin. Does it look like skin? *hides*)

Question! Why did nurses wear that wimple? It doesn't... seem to serve any purpose. Tie your hair back anhd cover it, but why do you need the rest of the wimple hanging down?

...I need a chocolate icon or something. Because, chocolate.

[beboots]

It looks VERY much like skin. I suspect it's from the small of someone's back, because it's very smooth. D: You can see some of the follicles.

I believe nurses wore the wimple like that. The nurse on 1920s street at Fort Ed wears one just like that. :)

I think it's a call back to the days when the Nursing Sisters were actually nuns, although by the First World War in Canada the order was secular.

Also, the wimple is SEXY, Cassidy dearest. ;) And it keeps your hair out of the way, as you said, in the days before hairnets. It also looks clean, neat and starched, which is a good image to have. Plus, if you look like a nun the men under your care will (in theory) think of you as less of a sexual object? (I'm just speculating.)

CHOCOLATE.

[kuiskata]

I want to say "cool," but...

I suppose. ;) Also, speculation is fun!

[beboots]

"I want to say "cool," but..."
I know! How enthusiastic is too enthusiastic when it comes to things like these?

[sharkflip]

Ah, collections. I fondly remember the day I was searching a shelf and opened a box with a human scalp in it. I was just looking for a raven rattle.

Our mummy's name was Milly, I believe, but the sarcophagus wasn't hers.

;)

[beboots]

Seriously? A surprise human scalp? (I want to say "awesome" but that sounds too, uh... disrespectful?) Interesting! :D

See, it's times like these that I'm really leaning towards going into museum studies. There's just so much cool STUFF out there in the archives and special collections. :)

You guys had a mummy too? Now that, I can safely say, is awesome. :)

[sharkflip]

You, my dear, are an excellent candidate for museum studies.

[beboots]

It's definitely something I want to look into. I just need to do a bit of searching around to see where the best programs are in Canada/North America/wherever I want to be. :) I'm planning on applying for museum studies and/or translation courses... and/or grad studies in history? Could I theoretically do a combined masters in history and museum studies?

[avocado_love]

I love horrid stuff like this.

(That book looks like my old school dictionary I still have in my room. *shivers*).

Is it bad that the book is... oddly pretty?

[beboots]

You're not alone in thinking the book pretty. Of course, you wouldn't go through all of that trouble just to make a book with a poor cover design, y/y? D:

Morbid stuff is interesting... but I still try not to think too hard about how they came about. D:

[feral_shrew]

OMG I WOULD DRIVE THERE FOR THIS TOUR, AND I LIVE IN MICHIGAN. WHICH IS THAT ODDLY-SHAPED SHAPE JUST BY ONTARIO

[beboots]

SERIOUSLY IF YOU ARE EVER IN THE VICINITY OF EDMONTON I WILL GIVE YOU *ALL* THE TOURS. History stuff is awesome. :D

...I... really want to take that course. It sounds AMAZING. <3 I only know bits and pieces, mostly from the 19th century. The history of shellshock must be fascinating.

That Valentine's day card sound ADORABLE as well. :D Please post pictures!

[feral_shrew]

History is SO FUN, and boyfriend and I both have the same plans-- eventually, when there is time, PhD! I want a PhD in history (especially medical) and he wants a philosophical doctorate in philosophy.

If you want just the 1500s dancing plagues, my poor professor's editor titled it "A Time to Dance, A Time to Die" (when he is the LEAST melodramatic person possible). He's coming out with a book on eugenics soon, and has been working like mad on it for over a year. John Waller = awesome.

[beboots]

Yay for further education! :D Medical history is awesome and should definitely be further explored.

Definitely tell me when his book comes out! :D