Ethnology And Foreign Archaeology, Bristol Museum And Art Gallery

Collection Name	Ethnology And Foreign Archaeology
Exhibition Title
Institution Name	Bristol Museum And Art Gallery
Museum Type	History and Culture
Strengths	Archaeology, Ethnic America
Topics Covered	Native Americans, Atlantic Slave Trade
Curator	Sue Giles				Email Address
Address	Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Queens Road Bristol, BS8 1RL United Kingdom
Location	Bristol
Telephone No.	0117 922 2635				Fax No.
Email Address	sue_giles@bristol-city.gov.uk
Web Page	http://www.bristol-city.gov.uk/Fuguri/frame.html?B+BLM00600+BG+F+CMM00101+DCL00105+BLM00105+BLM00404
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Stock Size
Catalogue					Availability
Collection offers	Online collection	no	Seminars/ Talks	no	Photographs	no	Manuscripts	no
	Ephemera	no	Newspapers		Paintings	no	E-Resources	no
	Sculpture	yes	Textiles	yes	Weapons	no	Prints	no
	Crafts	yes	Ceramics	yes	Audio	no	Film	no	Microfilm no
Other Information	Collection contains a Native American Canoe.
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Collection Description	"The Museum's collection includes material from the Americas, Africa and the Pacific. There are about 8,000 ethnography objects ranging from tiny pottery beads to full-size native American canoes, from huge bark-cloth masks from Papua New Guinea to a ball of string from the Congo. The collections reflect domestic life (e.g.,cooking equipment, furniture) work (agricultural tools, weaving equipment), technology (metal-working tools), ritual (power figures,masks,medicine) and the different stages of life, from baby carriers to toys to funerary masks. The Museum also has the very important collection of paintings made at ancient sites in Mexico by Miss Adela Breton, a Victorian traveller, archaeologist and artist. Most of the collection reflects Britain's colonial past. To balance this,and bring the collections up to date, we are collecting modern items that reflect life in the late 20th century. Among the new acquisitions are knitted hats from Bolivia and Peru, baskets from Zimbabwe, pottery, plastic religious items and tinware from Mexico, resist-dyed fabrics from Nigeria,a plastic water-pot from Guatemala, gin from Mozambique (in a recycled lemonade bottle),tableware from Tbilisi in Georgia,a machete from Nicaragua and a 'phone card from Antigua. This is a collection that is growing,not one that stopped at the end of the Empire." (Ethnology Department collection description, Bristol City Council Website)
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