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Artifacts and Fictions

IN 1993 I WORKED with a group of schoolchildren who were responding
to the astonishing objects in the collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum,
Oxford, England. Using found materials, they invented new
anthropological finds—objects that reflected the distant past
and their immediate future. I had the privilege of drawing
their inventions, some of which are shown here.