Library Instruction for Ethnographic Art

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Ethnographic Art Ethnographic Art Date Time Professor Aboriginal Bark Painting Boy's shirt—Crow Tribe

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Based on library instruction created by J. Rinalducci

Transcript of Library Instruction for Ethnographic Art

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Ethnographic Ethnographic ArtArt

Date Time

Professor

Aboriginal Bark Painting

Boy's shirt—Crow Tribe

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Library ResourcesLibrary Resources• http://www.scad.edu/library

• Library Catalog– Find books, e-books, videos, etc.

• Research Databases– Art Fulltext– Wilson Omnifile– JSTOR

Head of a King from 17th c. Nigeria, Edo, Benin City. Bronze

Inca Princess (Gran Ñusta Mama

Occollo)Denver Art Museum

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Find Books

Subject headings:

• Assigned to items in the catalog

• Makes it easy to find books on the same or similar topics

Other tips:

• Browse the Shelves: There may be similar books nearby. Bibliographies: Check bibliography to identify other books/ articles on your subject.

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Sample Searches

People

Inuit

Places

Africa

Themes

Ritual

Related Subjects

Ethnic Groups

Aboriginal Australians

Oceania Material Culture

Anthropology

Hopi OR Hopi Indians

Mexico Tattooing NarrowVisual Anthropology

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Keyword VS Subject Searching

Keyword Search

VS

Subject Search

Tattooing AND History AND New Zealand

Tattooing – Oceania – History

Mexico AND Ball game

Aztecs – Social life and customs

Inca AND Government

Incas – Politics and government

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WebsitesGeneral Art History

• Art History Resources on the Webhttp://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html from Sweet Briar CollegeLists of art history resources subdivided by time period

• Timeline of Art History http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm from Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Voice of the Shuttle http://vos.ucsb.edu from University of California at Santa BarbaraCategories include art history, cultural studies, anthropology, and archeology

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Selected Museum Sites

• Bowers Museum of Cultural Art http://www.bowers.org

• Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology http://www.peabody.harvard.edu from Harvard University

• Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum

• Smithsonian Institution

1. National Museum of Natural History http://www.mnh.si.edu

2. National Museum of the American Indian http://www.nmai.si.edu

3. National Museum of African Art http://www.nmafa.si.edu/index2.html

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Selected Sites for Anthropology/Archeology/Ethnography

• Anthropology Resources on the Internet http://www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm from American Anthropological Assoc.

• CSA Guide to Archaeological Projects http://csanet.org/index.html from Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology

• Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute

http://www.mesoweb.com/pari

• Resources in Ethnographic Studies http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/other.html from Library of Congress, American Folklife Center

• UCSB Department of Anthropology Links Directory http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/links/pages from Anthropology Dept, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

• Art and Life in Africa Online http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html from Univ. of Iowa

Revised JR: H: Ethnographic Art Handout Revised 09/07

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Head of a King, 17th century Nigeria, Edo, Benin City, Bronze• Location

– Benin City– Nigeria– Africa

• Time period– 17th Century

• Medium– Bronze– Lost-wax casting

• Subject– Royalty– Ruler OR King OR Oba– Kingdom

• Purpose– Ritual – Altar

• Related Ideas– Headdress– Cleveland Museum of Art

Ideas taken from description of object on Cleveland of Art Museum website