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Queequeg's Coffin by Peter Anderson

Photo by: Ales Prikryl

Year: 2002

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In Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Queequeg, near death, carved an intricate coffin to carry him into the afterlife. His carvings conveyed to this son of a cannibal king all that had true meaning in his life.

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