April 2007

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Freelance Opportunity: Buxton Museum

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery is looking for help to identify ethnographic material and for advice on potential restitutions. They write:These objects were purchased between 1940 and 1988, and were part of the Derbyshire Schools Library Service collections. We are looking for people who can help identify objects from:· Plains Indian (around 33 objects)· First Nations (around 10 objects)· Inuit...
Request for help: cultural group names

MEG have received the following request for help from Meghan Backhouse at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Meghan writes:As part of a wider project to change collections management systems, the Pitt Rivers Museum is working to update its Cultural Group Names information. The current list is woefully out of date, and based either on Donor or Collector’s information, or on Ethnologue language group attributions. As...