This is the last film in my current thematic collecting and migration series, many thanks to Dr Petra Tjitske Kalshoven, lecturer in Social Anthropology at The University of Manchester, for participating.
In 2016 I’ll be back with more thematic collecting films!
On Wednesday 9th November , Kanaris Theatre, the Manchester Museum, from 3pm onwards Professor Robert Foster, University of Rochester, New York, will be presenting his paper:
Installation Design and the Exhibition of Oceanic Things: Two New York Museums in the 1940s
Further information regarding Professor Fosters research can be found at:
http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3771
The presentation is a result of ongoing collaboration between the Museum and the University of Manchester Pacific Interest Group and Department of Social Anthropology. The Manchester Museum has an international significant Oceanic collection with over 7000 objects including textiles, weapons, tools, masks and carvings.
Bone and shell fish hook, Maori, New Zealand. 1800-1900. The Manchester Museum Living Cultures collection.
Spaces are limited so if you would like to attend do be punctual!
Stephen Terence Welsh
Curator of Living Cultures
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