Full description
The digital collection comprises over 5000 images from the ethnographic collection and 1500 images from the photographic collection with more being added as the project continues. The ethnographic collection is made up of over 19,000 items including contemporary art and artefacts from Australia and the Pacific as well as Asia, Africa and the American continents. The Museum also holds over 8000 prints, negatives and slides from the early and mid-twentieth century and includes fieldwork archives and mission photography acquired from various donors, vendors, collectors and photographers. Also included here are early ethnographic items in the Museum’s collection. The collection is an important resource for, among other areas, family research, visual culture studies, histories of anthropology, native title research, cultural history and post-colonial studies.Issued: 2013
Subjects
Anthropology |
Anthropology |
Digital collections |
Museum collections |
Studies in Human Society |
Social and Cultural Anthropology |
eng |
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Research Data Collections
local : UQ:289097
School of Social Science Publications
local : UQ:3854
Identifiers
- DOI : 10.14264/UQL.2017.25