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Lukasa memory board, from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum Beadwork Headdress for Mbudye Official, from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Lukasa, "the long hand" (or claw), is a memory device that was created, manipulated and protected by the Bambudye, a once powerful secret society of the Luba. Lukasa are examples of Luba art.
[223] [nb 4] The opening of the Menin Gate memorial, for example, inspired Will Longstaff's dream that led to the famous Menin Gate at Midnight painting, portraying the fallen dead rising and walking through the gateway, while the Cenotaph ceremonies were photographed in 1922, and believed by some to show the ghosts of the war dead. [225]
National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] As of September 2020 the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, owns and administers thirty-one memorials as official units and provides assistance for five more, known as affiliated areas, that are operated by other ...
Detail of names engraved along the circular wall of the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Holmdel, NJ Wednesday, May 18, 2022.
This is a list of types of funerary monument, a physical structure that commemorates a deceased person or a group, in the latter case usually those whose deaths occurred at the same time or in similar circumstances.
(Note: Although monuments and memorials in the U.S. include National Memorials like the Washington Monument, this category is not meant to describe various natural park–type places, such as Devils Postpile, which happen to be given the legal name "National Monument" for reasons unrelated to any memorial.)
A memorial hall is a hall built to commemorate an individual or group; most commonly those who have died in war. Most are intended for public use and are sometimes described as utilitarian memorials .
Archaeological sites in India; Archaeoastronomical sites; Ashoka pillars; Bhimbetka; Cave temples; Cave paintings; Colossal in situ sculptures; Dolmens; Forts
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