For this discussion post, I researched a museum I’ve always wanted to visit – the Smithsonian. While digging around the website, I discovered the leather jacket worn by Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I immediately chose this jacket because Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is one of my favorite movies,…
Read MoreI decided to look at “Bird Pendant” from the Ancient American Art collection at the MET. Upon clicking on it, the first amount of information that was offered was some history about the object and where exactly it came from. It came from Costa Rica and is made of jadeite. There is also speculation that…
Read MoreI decided to take this opportunity to explore more of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work. Rather than searching for his work in various museum databases, I searched for his name to see what databases includes some of his works and came across the online database, “artnet.com” and was surprised to see they have quite a bit of…
Read MoreFor this week’s assignment, I decided to take a look at some of the Alaskan collections from the British Museum. The object’s museum number is Am1976,03.79.a, and it is a wooden mask commissioned and collected by a Dr. Margaret Lantis. The mask was formerly on exhibit in 1992, 1999, and 2020-2021, and is currently in…
Read MoreFor this assignment the Item from my home I selected is a Nepalese board game called Bagha-Chal which roughly translates to Tigers and Goats. I selected this item since it felt reasonably unique and like the kind of item that would make sense to include in a museum collection. For ease of comparison, I then…
Read MoreFor this post, I was a bit disappointed with the lack of information I really wanted to share for this one artifact that I found very interesting at the British Museum. The artifact in question that I wanted to share is this Annular Brooch which dates around the early Anglo-Saxon period (around 400 A.D). I’ve…
Read MoreThis item. UAM:EH:0585-5775AB, an Unangax̂ grass woven basket, was collected by Captain James Simpson MacKinnon. this item is currently in collections, not on exhibit. Arctos does not have any information on who may have woven the basket or where it may have been found on the field, just assumptions that it came from the east…
Read MoreOne object that I have become quite familiar with since arriving in Fairbanks is in Arctos as UA2020-008-0001, and is better known as Bus 142. Accession: The politics around Bus 142 often drown out the information on how Bus 142 arrived at UAMN. Most people would be surprised to find that Bus 142 was created…
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