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19. James Steuart’s box of oysters at the Museum of Natural History (1868)
By Tamara Fernando (@TamaraFernando3) The historians’ job is akin to the detectives’: we ferret out clues, evaluate evidence and make deductions. But what do we do when trails run cold? My doctoral research is on the pearl fishery in the Gulf of Mannar. Sometime between 1820 and 1830, the painter Hippolyte Silvaf made twelve water-colours…
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