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		Freeboots on Oct 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Seventeenth-century Europeans ate mummies (2015) Crushed em up for pigment too, Mummy Brown, until early 20th century when demand dropped off (and they started running out of mummies).

tmm84 on Oct 24, 2019 [–]

As someone who grew up with a parent that was an artist I had never heard of this color till now. Just the name of it is awesome.

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