Collections documentation : The art of Mrs. Gertie Tom

• Main Author: Cronin, Allison Elaine
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Museum techniques; Tutchone > Material culture > Yukon; First Nations > Museums; Moosehide; Yukon; First Nations; Tutchone; Whitehorse
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3565

This thesis examines the documentation process of a collection of contemporary objects made by a Northern Tutchone artist, Mrs. Gertie Tom, from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. The beaded moosehide objects were purchased by the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology between 1992 and 1994...