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Mourning - Indigenous Australia
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/mourning-indigenous-australia/As a sign of mourning, white 'mourning caps' were worn by some Indigenous Australian communities, although the type of cap worn varied from region to region.
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Mourning - Society Islands, Heva ceremony
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/mourning-society-islands-heva-ceremony/In the Society Islands, French Polynesia, the death of a chief or person of distinction was accompanied by the performance of a ceremony called a heva, which was paid for and organised by the family of the deceased.
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Mourning - Victorian Era
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/mourning-victorian-era/In Great Britain, during the reign of Queen Victoria, people usually died in their homes, surrounded by family and friends, and the corpse stayed in the home until burial.
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Mourning - an introduction
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/mourning-an-introduction/Cultures mourn and celebrate death in different ways. Explore this diversity and the ways people remember their dead. Read about the way people prefer to dispose of their bodies and to be remembered.
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Stethoscopes
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/stethoscopes/The first stethoscope was invented in 1819 by Rene Laennec, and enabled doctors to more confidently detect a heartbeat and identify the 'signs of death'.
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Safety coffins
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/safety-coffins/Fear of premature burial was widespread in 18th and 19th century Europe, leading to the invention of the safety coffin. Over thirty different designs were patented in Germany in the second half of the 19th century.
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Signs of death
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/signs-of-death/Among classical Greek and Roman societies the signs of death were the absence of a heartbeat and breathing, and the onset of putrefaction. In medieval times a candle was held to the mouth - a flicker of the candle was shown as a sign of life.
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Body art
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/The Body Art exhibition explored the many different ways, both temporary and permanent, in which people modify, change, decorate and adorn their bodies. It revealed the what, why, how and where of 'body art'.
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Lawrence Hargrave
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/lawrence-hargrave/Engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor, aeronautical pioneer.
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Tim Flannery
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/tim-flannery/Explorer, scientist, communicator and former Australian of the Year.
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