The recovering of a past from what it left behind. Archaeology reads objects because the people are gone.

Made things left behind, and unintended marks left by a process. The same word for what was meant and what crept in.

The Irish book-shrine — the ornamented case made for a book already sacred; it honors the text and never speaks over it. In the Sanctuary: the shell that wraps a living thing without ever being the thing. Irish joins the naming strata beside sruth, ceilidh, seanchaí, and éist.

What happened, as it is held and told afterward. History is always a record made by someone, from somewhere.

A Prism theme named for the New Mexico pueblo — warm earth tones carrying the place's name with respect.

The traceable account of where a thing came from and whose hands it passed through. Provenance is what makes a claim checkable rather than merely asserted.

A thing that holds, and a thing that carries. The same word for the cup and the ship - and for a living body understood as either.