A number of recent works have explored the value of scholarly efforts to “unpack” museum collections and examine the constitutive networks and histories of objects. The interrogations of collections through methods such as object biographies and itineraries imparts important knowledge about the institutions, disciplines, and individuals who made museum collections, contribute to deeper understandings of the roles of objects in creating meaning in and of the world, and suggest implications for future practice and policies. This article examines the object itinerary of a cultural property item of negative heritage: a three-dimensional painted plaster work of craft-art originally designed to symbolize the scientific practice of anthropology in early twentieth-century Germany and later associated with wartime collecting during World War II, the history of American archaeology, and the modern repatriation movement in museums.

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纳粹科学、战时收藏和美国博物馆：人类学符号的物品路线

最近的一些作品探讨了学术努力“解开”博物馆藏品的价值，并研究了对象的构成网络和历史。通过对象传记和路线等方法对藏品进行询问，传授有关制作博物馆藏品的机构、学科和个人的重要知识，有助于更深入地理解对象在创造世界意义中的作用，并提出对博物馆收藏的启示。未来的实践和政策。本文检视负遗产文化财产项目的对象路线：一件 3D 彩绘石膏工艺艺术作品，最初旨在象征 20 世纪初德国人类学的科学实践，后来与二战期间的战时收藏有关二、