A tale of two figures: knowledge around objects in museum collections
Museum collected objects can be a rich resource for understanding the societies that made and used them, and their history. In Melanesia there has not been much of a tradition of using objects to understand history, not least because not much is often known about the objects now preserved in museum...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Journal de la société des océanistes
2018
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | Museum collected objects can be a rich resource for understanding the societies that made and used them, and their history. In Melanesia there has not been much of a tradition of using objects to understand history, not least because not much is often known about the objects now preserved in museum collections. By considering two unrelated and poorly documented female figures from the Lower Sepik region, this paper considers the kinds of research that can be used to deepen our understanding of such objects, and thus to extend our understanding of the history of the societies from which they derive. Specifically the two figures are identified as deriving from the Murik Lakes, and from the Bosmun area of the Ramu River, and as both being representations of a major culture hero in the Lower Sepik region. |
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