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It can be beetles that come off a cactus,
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it can be the dried urine of a cow,
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little insects that grow on an oak tree,
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a chunk of lead that's soaked in vinegar.
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It's truly amazing.
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We're in Harvard University,
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outside the Forbes pigment collection.
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Pigment is a very small particle of colored material
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that is mixed in with a binding medium.
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The pigment gives paint its color.
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The Forbes pigment collection has been
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brought together over several decades.
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We have around 2,500 pigments.
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We have a lot of very unusual and very rare colors.
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So this is, I think, one of the more unusually named pigments.
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It's called dragon's blood.
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It doesn't come from dragons, it comes from rattan palms.
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And it give a very bright red pigment.
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The unusual aspect of mummy has to do
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with its source rather than the color itself,
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and that comes from Egyptian mummies.
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And it's the resin that's applied
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to the outside of the bandages.
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I think the rarest color that we have
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is actually an entire ball of Indian yellow.
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And this is a pigment that is made
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from the dried urine of cows
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that are fed only on mango leaves.
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If you're looking at a work of art,
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and you want to understand what is original
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and what's a restoration, you will take
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a tiny sample of pigment and analyze it.
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A lot of the pigments are actually toxic,
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so you don't want to handle the pigments
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and then go out to lunch.
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There's a green called emerald green
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that has an arsenic center to it.
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We can use them for telling if something is real or not.
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People will say this is by a certain artist,
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and we can look at the materials that are used
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and decide if those materials were available
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during that artist's lifetime.
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If not, then we have to look at
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who might have painted that picture.
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I can't pick a personal favorite.
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There's, it's like asking to pick a favorite child.
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No, the other 2,400 would feel left out.
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The materials collection at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge houses thousands of pigments, including some of the world’s rarest like dragon's blood, mummy, Indian yellow.
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