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Description:Totaling approximately 40,000 objects, the University Museum's ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas--the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, California, Plateau, Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, Northeast, and the Southeast.This guide highlights the strength of the collections and demonstrates how objects are tied to history and people living within different cultural and social contexts. It also underscores that objects have different multiple meanings. Some objects illustrate intertribal relations; others best reflect collecting attitudes at the turn of the century when much of the Museum's collections was acquired.Visitors and off-site readers will learn about such related archival resources as documentation and photographs, past and present Museum exhibitions, current research, repatriation, and contemporary collections development.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. To get started finding Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Totaling approximately 40,000 objects, the University Museum's ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas--the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, California, Plateau, Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, Northeast, and the Southeast.This guide highlights the strength of the collections and demonstrates how objects are tied to history and people living within different cultural and social contexts. It also underscores that objects have different multiple meanings. Some objects illustrate intertribal relations; others best reflect collecting attitudes at the turn of the century when much of the Museum's collections was acquired.Visitors and off-site readers will learn about such related archival resources as documentation and photographs, past and present Museum exhibitions, current research, repatriation, and contemporary collections development.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. To get started finding Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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