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Re: African Fantasy Coffins - great sculpture lesson

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From: The Austin's (whest177_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 16:23:07 PDT


Well, I guess this is probably the solution to those challenging older male
dominated classes (at least mine are fascinated with death and the bizarre).
I did laugh when I read the part about the air pipes. I went to school with
a guy who was studying to be a mortician (I still can't believe that would
be a career choice). He was taking the hearse somewhere one day and went
through McDonald's drive through - and ordered "for the guy in back". Guess
those guys would have a macabre sense of humor! :-)
~Michal

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> hey Linda-
> I worked for NPL when they were making the
> text/display panels for the museum. It was soooo
> fascinating. Did you see the little air pipes they
> used to stick out of the ground in case the person
> woke up?
>
> I used to love it when those guys came in. Bizzare.
> I think that if one of them wasn't in the funeral biz,
> he would have been a "carni"! Dawn

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