From Pots to Pan Pipes: Specimen Exchanges between Paul S. Martin and Harold Gladwin

Specimen exchange saw widespread use in the nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries among museum-based anthropologists as a means of collections growth and refinement. This paper examines organizational aspects of specimen exchange at the Field Museum, and presents a case study of exchanges betwe...

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Main Author: Catherine A Nichols
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2019-03-01
Series:Museum & Society
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Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/2703