Dunno if anyone here is into facial reconstruction but the technology

>>3063984

Oh fuck I forgot the link hahahaha

http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/941469251866/

>>3063984

Bumping: just to put this into context, to make the 350,000 beads = approx. 3,500 man hours to produce. Not including the time it would take to acquire the materials + the time needed to make/re-sharpen the manufacturing tools

BC is a spooky place
pacfici northwest is really the last frontier of north america imo (besides the ice parts of canada)

>>3063984
I honestly don't know why people spend so much time and money doing this just for fueling the racial debate (I know thats not why but thats the end result). There is really no way we can know for sure what they look like and it really doesn't enhance our life knowing.

It is very cool though.

>>3064502

what do you mean? I think the point of it was to help indigenous communities and non-indigenous people alike to visualize indigenous ancestors and make indigenous history literally more visible, which is a big thing in FN politics at least on the west coast

why did they love beads so much

>>3064761

Good question. I'm not sure why beads was the thing, that'd be pure speculation. Probably garnered value through 1) personal adornment 2) exchange (building history which is important to Coast Salish through trade networks) and 3) deposition of beads in ritual contexts, such as in mortuary contexts like this one

labrets were another form of personal adornment which was used as a status marker, as was cranial deformation (debatable, this whole thing, 'cause it's interpretations of material culture, but this whole thing plausible)