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An American Sufi Shrine, Bawa’s Mazar in Coatesville, Pennsylvania

M. Shobhana Xavier

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Making Crosses, Crossing Borders: The Performance of Mourning, the Power of Ghosts, and the Politics of Countermemory in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Barbara Sostaita

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Ex-Votos, Shrine of St. Roch, New Orleans

Stephanie Bilinksy

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Revisiting the Property Room: A Humanist Perspective on Doing Justice and Telling Stories

Laura S. Levitt

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The Revolutionary Exhumations at St-Denis, 1793

Suzanne Glover Lindsay

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A gold border encircles a braided piece of hair arranged in an arc on a book page. Bows are tied on the hair tips. Handwritten script below reads, "Mother. Died Dec. 16th 1867. Aged 56 years."

Carte de visite Photograph Album

Rachel McBride Lindsey

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In a mural on a cave wall, robed figures gather around a painted tablet. Two larger figures kneel while their attendants hold offerrings. Much of the colorful paint has chipped off the figures.

Ancestor portraits at Mogao Cave 231

Winston Kyan

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Three shelves of small gable-roofed and house-shaped boxes are displayed behind bars. Each box is black and white with a cross affixed to the top. All have text inscribed on the front.

Skull boxes

Maura Coughlin

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A painting depicts a small child, a woman, and a suited man gathered around two urns on a plinth. They are framed by the drooping leaves of the golden tree that they stand under. The man gestures in oration and the woman leans on the plinth.

Mary Lyman’s Mourning Piece

Jamie L. Brummitt

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