notes on oriental institute

middle east f1919
"PARTAGE SYSTEM"
coined term "fertile Crescent"

relief: parthenon / state capital building of nebraska

spec exhibits gallery>
excavation vs. purchase
egypt / ancient nubia (1960s)

collecting "A GOOD DEAL"

lawsuit - rightfully (rightful ownership - v.v.interesting legal battle w/ instit. in middle)

ernst hertzfeldt

eclectic collection of ivories (MEGGIDO)

OSSUARY (boz for bones)

objects with value /

normal museum / collectors as financial suppoerters - here researchers


mesapotamea

6-sided clay prism / cunaiform writing

sennacherib prism

meant for gods not people
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yelda khorsabad court

open mouth rituals

looting of baghdad museum

object ownership

weird notes of equation of the costs and benefits of object ownership:


the value of an object one collects ( )in terms of it's cultural / financial value as well as its emotional value as well as its lifelong cost to one in terms of space (we pay for space it takes up - on our shelf, for instance), and duration of time we have it (spend taking care of it, spend working to afford to acquire it, and to store it in space over the amount of benefit to the body, or cost to the body equals its value.

Record Collection

http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/02/worlds-largest/

http://gizmodo.com/5038783/worlds-largest-record-collection-is-worth-50-million-no-one-wants-it-for-3-million

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j7F_4S2lgM

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

sites on insect collection and or display

http://www.bugman123.com/Bugs/Bugs.html

http://sagehen.ucnrs.org/Photos/animals/insects/slides/Sagehen%20insect%20collection,%20reg_barrett.html

http://www.utexas.edu/research/bfl/Research/Entomology%20Collection.html
http://www.buyinsectcollection.com/

http://www.jenniferangus.com/home.htm

http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=672

wunderkammer

playing around with displaying collection in the home

COLLECTED TEXTURES