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| Emu Cameo; c. 1890, Beardsley Collection, Anthropology Museum, Sacramento State |
Welcome to blog central for ANTH 177 (Spring 2014). Students in this course maintain individual blogs in order to record their weekly lab hours and summaries, journal their brilliant thoughts about our readings, discuss our exhibit and inventory project, and generate discussion about museum-related issues, events or opportunities. This is a nuts and bolts course that complements ANTH 176: Museums, Culture & Society (an introduction to the scholarly field of museum anthropology).
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Emu objects
Here is a comparative photo that verifies that what we have is an emu, not ostrich, egg (this points to the importance of re-examining old catalog entries). The cameo is correctly identified as emu. And here is an emu chick (new arrival) at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (just for fun). Looking forward to seeing both the egg and cameo exhibited and interpreted by the Colonial Milieu team.
Wow! Thank you! So good to know what we really have here and also that was 9 seconds of a ridiculous amount of adorableness.
ReplyDeleteHow am I supposed to be working on genealogies when there's a baby emu video to rewatch like six times?
ReplyDeleteDr. Castaneda I'm glad that got all cleared up!!
ReplyDeleteI want an Emu chick for our display!
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