Colonial Collecting and Display

Colonial Collecting and DisplayIn the late nineteenth century, British travelers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands compiled wide ranging collections of material culture for scientific instruction and personal satisfaction. Colonial Collecting and Display follows the compelling history of a particular set of such objects, tracing their physical and conceptual transformation from objects of indigenous use to accessioned objects in a museum collection in the south of England. This

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