screenshot of Twitter post featuring digital photographs of memento mori objects from Science Museum Group Collection
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Added to the Museum of Data by Alexandra Krook on Wednesday, December 15, 2021. Museum of Data Collection ID: 900.
Public description: This is a screenshot of a tweet from Twitter user @DrSamGeorge1, retweeted by @ThanatosArchive, a digital channel dedicated to post-mortem and mourning photography and wider death-related iconography. The wording of the tweet is: "MEMENTO MORI JEWELLERY C16th conjoined wedding rings with skeleton or memento mori, a reminder of death, the soul's journey & the unity of forever; An C18th silver skeleton worn as a memento mori pendant inside a gold coffin, Science Museum, London #FolkloreThursday". The attachments are two digital photographs of memento mori objects from The Science Museum Group Collection: conjoined wedding rings with engravings and skeleton detailing and a pendant of a skeleton in a coffin, made from silver, steel and gold.
Materials used: Twitter post made of digital photographs, HP laptop screengrab, Google Chrome web browser, Twitter UX and UI, python coding; object original materials: gold, silver, steel
Credit: Digital object Post from Twitter account @DrSamGeorge1, retweeted by @ThanatosArchive, screengrab Material object represented (pendant details, rings unknown) Artist: Unknown Collection: Science Museum Group Collection CATEGORY: Anatomy & Pathology OBJECT NUMBER: A641823
Copyright: None found
Language: English
Size: Screen-size eg adjustable/infinite
Creation date: 2021/11/11 13:20:00
Other date: 2021/11/10 10:11:00
External link: https://twitter.com/DrSamGeorge1/status/1458739239139651595?s=20
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