When an Old House Whispers: A Canadian Collector - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:47 PM On 2013-07-08 23:58, GROG wrote: Here ya go Bigbro. They're nice and big here...... Thanks G-man. I really wanted to see the details in these photos: I am fascinated with the turn of century "field collecting" craze, that obsession to amass native artifacts on expeditions into exotic lands: It populated Western museums with countless native items, but what did it do to native cultures? One example: The Stockholm Ethnographic museum currently has a show about their "Magazin" - their storage: As in all the other museums, they can only display a small percentage of their collection, so they decided to pull out a much larger number to illustrate what is there: They managed to squeeze 6000 artifacts into the show.... ...but they have 250 000 in their storage. And this is a low number for some museums. This was the "fever" that Karl Woerman was talking about, and to which Tiki mug collecting pales in comparison.

On 2013-07-08 23:58, GROG wrote:
Here ya go Bigbro. They're nice and big here......

Thanks G-man. I really wanted to see the details in these photos:

I am fascinated with the turn of century "field collecting" craze, that obsession to amass native artifacts on expeditions into exotic lands: It populated Western museums with countless native items, but what did it do to native cultures?

One example: The Stockholm Ethnographic museum currently has a show about their "Magazin" - their storage: As in all the other museums, they can only display a small percentage of their collection, so they decided to pull out a much larger number to illustrate what is there:

They managed to squeeze 6000 artifacts into the show....

...but they have 250 000 in their storage. And this is a low number for some museums. This was the "fever" that Karl Woerman was talking about, and to which Tiki mug collecting pales in comparison.

Post #685262 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:47 PM