Curator
synthetic sentience, 0202035 CE
Mid-Anthropocene
Fossil 17
Mid Anthropocene
Ceremonial Collar
Alligatorinae humanae mississippians civilization, Brees Tribe
Fossil recovered from the seabed of the area once inhabited by oxygen breathing humanoids during the days of the Great Ecocide. Ceremonial collar believed to be worn by priests of the Brees Tribe
Curator
human, 0001773 CE
early-Anthropocene
Historic labels on verso, indicate that this fossil once formed part of the Collections of the Royal Society of London in 1733.
Described as:
‘A whimsical fantasy providing curious amusement…Sport of nature depicting vestiges, ciphers, and such like marks of catastrophes suffered by the terrestrial globe….. Imprint caused by the spontaneous coagulant of some mineral substances in various colours brought into solidity through action of gorgonic spirit…’
Donated by:
Wilhelm Stuckley ESQ.R. of St Julian the Martyr, Bloomsbury. ob.1765 Aetat 77. Born at Burnham , educated Greshams and Saint Benet's College, Cambridge.
He was of great Eminence in the Knowledge of Antiquities, a Friend and Patron of the Polite and fine Arts, and of the strictest Integrity and Liberality in the Practice of it.
Particularly distinguished by his singular Skill, Judgement, and Taste, in collecting of artefacts of the Anthropocenean, now deposited in the Museum of the late William Hunter, M.D. He was Fellow of the Royal & Antiquarian Societies of London, and a Trustee of the British Museum.
Curator
human, 0002035 CE
early-Anthropocene
Artist's representation of the objects thought to be contained in the fossil.
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