Why the US-style censorship on historic content?
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It is early because my first thought was wondering why her top wasn't sepia like the rest of the picture.
I like her top, they were really ahead of their time.
Is there an uncensored version? For science!
I wonder how heavy that thing is.
Then again, I imagine it can’t possibly be heavier than claymores and zweihanders, and those were allegedly used despite being longer than I am tall..
With zweihanders, it's all about leverage. People can strike pretty fast with them - but because of the long handle (and sometimes holding the unsharpened part of the blade) giving them more leverage.
Why is the sword so big? There's got to be a practical purpose for it
She's ready to fight god.
Cultural sensitivity Deceased persons
In some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, hearing recordings, seeing images or the names of deceased persons may cause sadness or distress and in some cases, offend against strongly held cultural prohibitions
https://aiatsis.gov.au/cultural-sensitivity
I'm not fully versed in the complexities of this, but there's a taboo about depicting deceased Mob / Blak Fellas, this can extend to using a different name / not using their name, not depicting them in recordings, photographs, the like
it's important to be aware that during the more open colonial period, photographs like this were staged, likely coerced in contexts with limited consent. There's a lot like this where photographers have posed people beating women, and in other ways to justify their preconceived ideads about the natives they were actively involved in displacing
remembering this was at a time colonists did not consider Aboriginals as human, were stealing their bodies, selling their bones to museums, and treating them as animals
I encourage everyone to do some reading about this, and educate yourselves about cultures that have little to no understanding of

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