It is a practical necessity — some designation is needed — and it is sometimes poeticized into a kind of naming that gives the individual some sense of identity beyond their specimen number in a museum catalog.

But it is worth being clear that these names are not the individuals’ names.

They are our names for them — names we have given to placeholders for people we know almost nothing about as individuals.

The practice can slide from necessary designation into a kind of false intimacy, a suggestion of knowing someone who is essentially unknown.

Zlatý kůň is at least a name that places her geographically — in the Golden Horse caves, in the Bohemian karst, in central Europe.

It situates her.