Exploring the material culture of medical artifacts in the Oblate Collection

• Published in: Scientia Canadensis
• Main Author: Jaworski, Sarah
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: CSTHA/AHSTC 2024
• Subjects: Oblates; Medical collection; Artifact records; Object biographies; Ingenium; New Brunswick; Missionnaires oblats; Collection médicale; Dossiers d’artefacts; Biographies d’objets; Nouveau-Brunswick; Canada; Fuller; Wolastoqiyik
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1116135ar; https://doi.org/10.29173/scientia12

How can we explore object biographies when a collection has relied heavily on the donor’s narrative? This article uses three artifacts to explore the history of Ingenium’s Oblate Collection, a group of 282 medical artifacts used at L’Hôpital de L’Assomption in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, on the land...