Check out the lastet, ghoulish, edition of our #handoftheweek!
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Check out the latest #handoftheweek
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Resharing our #Handoftheweek posts
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Another #Handoftheweek - exploring marks inscribed on the hand and their capacity to be read in multiple ways. Please share more widely.
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What an amazing #Handoftheweek 👏 👏
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Another #Handoftheweek - enjoy and please share 🙏
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Make sure to check out our #handoftheweek as we bring you intriguing, exciting, and touching stories of the hands of history!
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The Victorian Hand's #handoftheweek is all about the fingerprint and the handprint and roots in racialised ideologies. Do check it out and follow us!
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A palm print at the top of a document, with the whirls and lines of the palm and fingerprints clearly visible.
In colonial India, William Herschel introduced fingerprinting in the 1850s to authenticate identity on legal documents.
Influenced by colonial ideologies, his experiments laid the foundations for modern forensic identification, codifying the hand as a scientific marker of identity.
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Do you want to read about the weird and wonderful history of hands? Check out @victorianhand.bsky.social and our #handoftheweek series, starting today!! Please share widely.
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A photograph in the negative of a handprint with caterpillar-like bristles emanating from the fingers and palm, supposedly showing the human soul.
A fuzzy picture of a palm print, with what looks like white clouds apparently showing the human soul.
We’re launching our #handoftheweek series!
This week is Dr Hippolyte Baraduc, who tried to photograph the human soul via 'the most perfect organ after the brain', the hand.
Baraduc’s photos blend science and occult, showing how hands were seen as windows onto the inner self in the 19th century.
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