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Collection Management
March 11th, 2011
Javanese masks are worn by actors in traditional dance dramas known as wayang topeng. Such performances are held at night and last for at least several hours.
March 07th, 2011
Examining a polychrome wooden statue using computed tomography and XRF leads to insight into how it was made and how it is deteriorating.
March 07th, 2011
CT scanning a specimen cataloged as a "mummified bovid" produced surprising results.
March 02nd, 2011
While the acquisition of new collections for the Museum still involves obtaining actual objects, our collecting also involves much more than just this.
March 02nd, 2011
In 1958 The Field Museum purchased one of the most extensive and valuable collections of Pacific artifacts ever assembled; Captain A.W.F. Fuller’s collection of 6,884 objects of material culture.
March 02nd, 2011
A.B. Lewis left Chicago on May 8, 1909, with Fiji as his first destination and with the primary objective, as instructed by Dorsey, to assemble a display worthy museum collection from the southwestern Pacific.
March 02nd, 2011
The Museum’s initial holdings from the Pacific islands included notable collections that were received from the K.K. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum in Vienna, Austria, J. G. Peace from Melanesia, Carl Hagenbeck, and Otto Finsch and exhibited at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. In 1908 George Dorsey made the Museum’s first trip to the Pacific when he undertook a whirlwind collecting trip around the world that stopped in New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, and Australia.
March 02nd, 2011
The Museum’s collection from Australia numbers over 2,200 objects.
March 02nd, 2011
The Museum’s archaeological and ethnographic materials from Micronesian number nearly 16,000 specimens.
March 02nd, 2011
The Museum’s ethnographic materials from Melanesia, numbering over 38,000 objects, represent one of the world’s finest collections of Pacific material culture ever assembled.