Different collections, different values?: the role of provenance in Gifts from the ancestors : ancient ivories of Bering Strait
The purpose of this paper is to understand why some of the objects that were part of the Princeton University Art Museum’s exhibition Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait have a provenance, while others do not. Because the objects are from the same general area, one would assum...
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ftrutgersuniv:oai:example.org:rutgers-lib:34213 2023-05-15T15:44:10+02:00 Different collections, different values?: the role of provenance in Gifts from the ancestors : ancient ivories of Bering Strait DeAugustine, Nicole T., 1987- DeAugustine, Nicole T., 1987- (author) St. Clair Harvey, Archer (chair) Daniels, Brian I (internal member) Kahlaoui, Tarek (internal member) Rutgers University Graduate School - New Brunswick 2011 v, 51 p. : ill. electronic resource application/pdf http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000061611 eng eng Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations rucore19991600001 http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000061611 Art History Art—Provenance Ivory carving--Bering Strait Text theses 2011 ftrutgersuniv 2022-05-30T13:42:40Z The purpose of this paper is to understand why some of the objects that were part of the Princeton University Art Museum’s exhibition Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait have a provenance, while others do not. Because the objects are from the same general area, one would assume that provenance information for the ivory objects would be site specific and similar from collection to collection. This assumption, however, falls apart when considering the exhibition collection checklist because many objects have unidentified, unidentified/”said to be,” and “said to be” provenances, with much fewer objects showing a provenance related to a specific site, island/peninsula, or even region. The unidentified provenance objects alone make up more than half of the questionably provenanced objects in entire exhibition, leading to questions about the collecting practices of the museum and their benefactors. Using the exhibition as a case study, this analysis will address the politics of displaying and collecting objects of uncertain provenance, to determine whether different types of institutions and collections, aesthetic or ethnologic and private or public, value an object’s provenance differently and the effect this has on scholarship. M.A. Includes bibliographical references by Nicole T. DeAugustine Thesis Bering Strait RUcore - Rutgers University Community Repository Bering Strait |
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The purpose of this paper is to understand why some of the objects that were part of the Princeton University Art Museum’s exhibition Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait have a provenance, while others do not. Because the objects are from the same general area, one would assume that provenance information for the ivory objects would be site specific and similar from collection to collection. This assumption, however, falls apart when considering the exhibition collection checklist because many objects have unidentified, unidentified/”said to be,” and “said to be” provenances, with much fewer objects showing a provenance related to a specific site, island/peninsula, or even region. The unidentified provenance objects alone make up more than half of the questionably provenanced objects in entire exhibition, leading to questions about the collecting practices of the museum and their benefactors. Using the exhibition as a case study, this analysis will address the politics of displaying and collecting objects of uncertain provenance, to determine whether different types of institutions and collections, aesthetic or ethnologic and private or public, value an object’s provenance differently and the effect this has on scholarship. M.A. Includes bibliographical references by Nicole T. DeAugustine |
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