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June 6 - June 7, 2019
You will take your children to a museum of anthropology, and you will gaze down at eighteenth-century amulets from Papua New Guinea, worn to ward off evil spirits, death, disease. Several are the circumference of a child’s wrist. A familiar commingling of hope, desperation and an urge to protect rises from beads, twine and feathers. You think: you too? You think: did it work?
