Connecting Collections: Collectors of Pre-Columbian and Indigenous American Art in the Americas and Europe

Summary

Speakers of this session are dealing with collections and museums in the Americas as well as Europe. They are sharing knowledge on the role of collectors of Pre-Columbian and indigenous American objects that represent the Pre-Columbian era and the colonial and later periods. Many of them were collected in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Ever since collections were subject to all kinds of moves and treatments. Collections were divided, and objects have been dispersed. Can we virtually reunite divided collections that ended up in different museums and continents by creating shared digital platforms? In order to get the ball rolling I will introduce briefly a few different cases as examples of scattered collections housed today on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 18876