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What is it?

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

by Jill Holt, Curator of Textiles

One of the tasks of a curator is to properly identify the object name and function of an artifact. Our database includes a lexicon of object names and functions from which we select, and every effort is made to choose the correct name for an object. (more…)

Tags: artifact, museum, tool
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