Like the curios taken away by the missionaries, these remnants leave behind a ravaged and silenced context.
They are like nothing so much as tchotchkes in a curio cabinet, almost unbelievably adorable matched pairs of knickknacks.
This has led to a secondary industry of wood carving and other curios.
Appropriately enough, both the monstrosities and the curiosities, both the unhappy and the happy couples are put on display, in a kind of freak show or curio cabinet, respectively.
They have not confined themselves to paintings but have included drawings, tapestry, sculptures curios, antiques, coins, and all kinds of other items.
The second is over-exploitation of particular goods and services by destructive fishing or intensive tourism and the marine curio trade.
In 40 years from now the house without central heating will be not only a slum but a kind of mediaeval curio.
It seemed to me quite wrong that this sort of thing should be on sale as a curio.
