I’ve been browsing antique jewelry a lot lately and wonder about this. With jewelry specifically I think about hair, coral, pearls.

Then that extends out to animal skins, bones, human relics, etc.

What makes one thing gross but the other okay?

  • GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    My only concern for body parts and specimens is/would be: were they ethically sourced? There are laws arround that thankfully.

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      The issue is (at least here in the states) those laws aren’t retroactive. So museums have tons of body parts of dubious origin