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Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates at the Smithsonian Institution
Museum Anthropology Pub Date : 2016-09-01 , DOI: 10.1111/muan.12120
Catherine A. Nichols 1
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The museum catalogue has historically been used to classify artifacts based on their material and contextual features. The use of natural history, catalogue-based classifications in nineteenth-century museums resulted in curators designating some anthropological museum specimens as duplicates. These items were then used in specimen exchanges among museums and collectors, which served to extend each recipient's scope of collections. This article explores how cataloguing techniques recontextualized anthropological artifacts into specimens, which then circulated based on networks of correspondence. I compare the purpose and goals of three exchanges carried out by the Smithsonian Institution to the Rijks Ethnographic Museum in Leiden, the Historical Department of Iowa, and U.S. Congressman Joel P. Heatwole. Specimen exchange highlights the interconnections among institutions and emphasizes how approaches to collecting by one museum can affect the content of collections in other museums.

中文翻译:

在史密森学会交换人类学副本

历史上,博物馆目录一直用于根据文物的材料和背景特征对文物进行分类。在 19 世纪博物馆中使用自然历史、基于目录的分类导致策展人将一些人类学博物馆标本指定为复制品。这些物品随后被用于博物馆和收藏家之间的标本交换,这有助于扩大每个收件人的收藏范围。本文探讨了编目技术如何将人类学文物重新融入标本,然后根据通信网络进行传播。我将史密森学会进行的三项交流的目的和目标与莱顿的 Rijks 民族志博物馆、爱荷华州历史部和美国国会议员 Joel P. Heatwole 进行了比较。
更新日期:2016-09-01
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