We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Lost in Museums: The Ethical Dimensions of Historical Practices of Anthropological Specimen Exchange.
- Authors
NICHOLS, CATHERINE A.
- Abstract
The exchange of anthropological objects by museums in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries involved circulation of Indigenous material culture and human remains beyond the institution in which collections were originally accessioned. This paper traces the biography of a Hopi sacred object collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1879 from the Smithsonian Institution to the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro in 1885 in order to highlight the ethical implications of how historical practices of specimen exchange affect knowledge about and contemporary access to museum objects. Analysis of specimen exchange emphasizes how the aims and actions of curators contribute to the dynamic nature of museum collections.
- Subjects
ANTHROPOLOGICAL museums &; collections; ETHNOLOGICAL museums &; collections; MUSEUMS -- Moral &; ethical aspects; HOPI (North American people); CEREMONIAL objects; SMITHSONIAN Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology; MUSEUMS; INTERNATIONAL cooperation
- Publication
Curator, 2014, Vol 57, Issue 2, p225
- ISSN
0011-3069
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cura.12063