The Dagenham Idol

“To Blackwell… J digging his late Docke, he did 12 foot underground find perfect trees over-Covered with earth – nut trees with the branches and the very nuts upon them their shells black with age and their Kernell upon opening decayed but their shell perfectly hard as ever….” From Samuel Pepys diary, 22 September, 1665 …

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Shaman and the Box

During the course of his supreme act, the Shaman would call upon members of the audience to try their hand in his box, which was placed at the centre of the stage. The box was a traveller’s trunk (worn, beaten, and labelled by the marks of its owner’s travels and travails) that went up and …

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