• The history of the bandanna. (Smithsonian)

• In which a museumgoer reveals that a missing Jacob Lawrence painting has been hanging in her neighbors’ living room for decades. (New York Times)

• Also found: medieval graffiti designed to repel evil sprits and witchcraft. (Belfast Telegraph)

• Meet Min Matheson. (Zócalo Public Square)

• “How a dozen possibly fraudulent and forged indigenous artworks left Texas and ended up on museum walls in Wyoming.” (Texas Observer)

• “When things look bleak in this world, it is perhaps natural to turn one’s mind to conditions on other worlds. This is what the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens did in the late 1680s.” (The Public Domain Review)

• What is a political essay? (Literary Hub)

• “Scientists Find a Mass Grave in Tulsa That Might Be from 1921 Race Massacre.” (Washington Post)

• On Gouverneur Morris’ secret sex diary. (JSTOR Daily)

• “The Lesbian Partnership That Changed Literature.” (The Paris Review Daily)

• “What Ancient Toilets Reveal About the History of the Human Gut.” (Atlas Obscura)

• “The dun sands of southern Peru, etched centuries ago with geoglyphs of a hummingbird, a monkey, an orca—and a figure some would dearly love to believe is an astronaut—have now revealed the form of an enormous cat lounging across a desert hillside.” (The Guardian)

• Imagining the lives of three Black suffragettes. (Elle)

• “Indiana Jones isn’t really an archaeologist except in name. He doesn’t excavate in any of the movies, he doesn’t do surveys—he’s a treasure hunter, and archaeologists aren’t treasure hunters. The only thing I think I can say is that a lot of archaeologists would like to punch Nazis too, but that’s really the only similarity.” (Mel)

• This week in obituaries: James Randi, Elisabeth Russell Taylor, Tom Maschler, Spencer Davis, Bess Abell, Robert DeMora, Marge Champion, Margaret Nolan, J. Michael Lane, Toshinori Kondo, Anthony Chisholm, and James Redford.