A highly species-rich jaw-bone artefact from New Guinea

Hamilton, Andrew J.; Hopwood, Bronwyn

doi:10.1007/s12520-021-01354-9

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“…Some animals are also inherently of great worth, which in turn is sometimes reflected in the systematics. Cassowary sacrifices are known to occur, and elaborate pig-killing festivals take place across much of New Guinea, for the pig is widely revered as a symbol of status (Hamilton and Hopwood 2021; Healey 1985).…”

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Online Museum Collections as Artifacts: A Case Study of New Guinean Necklaces Illustrating Mathematical Approaches as Diagnostics for Collections Management

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Hopwood

2022

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

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Mathematical approaches assessing similarity in terms of culture, geography, and zoological components were applied to nine online collections of New Guinean necklaces. When mapped in multidimensional space for peoples, no strong clustering of collections was found, and for provinces two collections formed a distinct cluster from the rest. In zoological space there was no clustering, but one collection occupied a distinctly separate space. A highly significant ( p < .001) effect of collection on the zoological species richness was found. There were significant differences ( p < .05) in zoological entropy between several collections, and a degree of uncertainty or surprise in the zoological composition of the necklace collections. The processes behind such patterns are likely complex, and may reflect issues of funding, unconscious bias, and colonial or missionary histories. The methods explored provide diagnostic tools useful for testing the underlying structures and bias of collections.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%