Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Documention of artifacts

After establishing our theme of the nine muses and representation of preexisting artifacts it was then time to return to the museum and document all artifacts on show that could be linked in some way to one of the nine muses.

I conducted my search room by room photographing and documenting where they came from.

Room one ground floor

African instruments

Balafor

Djembe

Mbira

A16 Paper knife

A23 Chinese printing block

B13 Palm Leaf book

B14 Tangka or religious painting

B23 Burmese chest

C2 Hand held drum

C3 stringed instrument

C4 stringed instrument

C5 tiger puppet

F12 African dance shield

F13 Drum

F14 Lyre

F15 balafon

F16 mibira

F17 whist ornament

this is cover in beads and bell that jangle during a sacred dance

H16 mans headdress

H26 mask?

H29 mans drum

Room two

Eygyption carcoficus

Votive cloth

-singer of amin story

Shabli box

Room three

Memorial stone

Krater

Oinochloe

Room four

Extract from the Plymouth “ act of incorporation”

Torpedo history sheet

Log from hms Trafalgar


Loby

The herald sculpture talthybius

Natural history

Everything could have been used

The Cottonian Collection

Portrait of sir I isic newton

Greek sculpture vase

Thousonds of history books and poetry

Sculptcher s

Ceramics room

23 – 30 porcelain figures of the four elements and seasons

27- 30 “” continents and

13 Chinese jars portraying drama




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