Ethnographic collections

Glastrup, J. (1987) Insecticide analysis by gas chromatography in the stores of the Danish National Museum s ethnographic collection. Studies in Conservation, 32,... 

Tilbrooke, D.R. (1975) The problem of naphthalene in ethnographic collections. ICCM Bulletin, 4, 75-6. 

Many indigenous peoples treat skins by impregnating them with fats. They are then allowed to dry under controlled conditions while being worked mechanically. This procedure both coats the individual fibres and fills the spaces between them with the fatty material. This renders the skins water-resistant and even if they are subjected to wet conditions, the fibres themselves remain too dry for bacterial action to take place. These materials therefore appear to satisfy the criteria of resistance to microbiological attack. Such products are found widely in ethnographic collections and have been called pseudo-leathers. 

Turquoise was extensively used in several of the ancient Me american civilizations, the Toltec, Aztec and Maya, in the construction of mo ic. Fig. 7 is one of several turquoise mosaic masks in the Ethnographic Collections of the British Museum One of the purposes of the development of a turquoise analytical data bank is to relate the turquoise used in Mesoamerica to their source areas, some of whidi were located in the southwestern United States (Fig. 8) The named areas in Fig. 8 refer to sites important in mining, processing or trade in PreColumbian turquoise. Strong relationships have been shown to exist between turquoise used in the Hohokam culture (7 in Fig. 8) and Chaco Canyon (site 6), by means of NAA. 

Shedrinsky, A., E. Muchawsky-Schnapper, Z. Aizenshtat, and N. Baer, Application of analytical pyrolysis to the examination of amber objects from the ethnographic collection of the Israel Museum, in Investigations into Amber Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary Symposium Baltic Amber and Other Fossil Resins, September 2-6, 1999, B. Gdansk Kosmowska-Ceranowicz and H. Paner, Eds., pp. 207-214. 

The third category of metallic artifacts includes collections of a most different provenance—such as scientific instruments, fine arts, historic pieces, ethnographic specimens, etc., which are usually kept in museums. Contrary to the belief that an object is safe once it enters a museum, certain storage or display conditions may lead to corrosive reactions that are different from those found in the natural environment [264, 265]. Some of these dangers come from off-gassing from materials used to build display cases and rooms, as well as air pollution introduced by visitors. 

By applying ethnography early in the innovation process, you may discover jobs and/or outcomes that customers have not articulated, especially in cases where existing solutions fail or fall short. For the best results, however, you will need to hire a trained ethnographer due to the discipline associated with collecting qualitative data in the field and accurately analyzing the findings. 

A variety of shaping processes is used to produce three-dimensional plastics today, many of which were developed before the 1940s in the USA and Germany (Brachert, 2002). Selection of appropriate processes depends on economic fectors, the number, weight and dimensions of finished parts, the suitability of a particular plastic s thermal properties to a process, and the complexity of finishing operations. Mass production processes are frequently used to shape olgects found in modem history, ethnographic, medical, sports history, furniture, military and children s collections. 

The discussion in this section is partly based on dissertation-related fieldwork conducted in two villages in India over 2000-2001. Data were collected through household surveys, open-ended interviews, and participant observation. Results of the ethnographic study are available in Basu (2009a). 

These varied collections arrived in Europe and almost immediately private and public spaces were needed for their storage, study and eventually exhibition whether, rock, animal, ethnographic or plant. 

A traditional anthropological method is ethnographic in nature and may include long-term participant observation and the collection of detailed oral histories and life stories by telling their own stories to the researcher, refiigees themselves and the ethnographer her or himself are able to develop a narrative analysis to interpret the reasons for their displacement. Eastmond (2007) finds that narratives can help researchers uncover the causes of displacement by listening to the voices of the displaced ... 

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