This volume was published jointly by the Horniman Museum and The Museu Antropológico da Universidade Coimbra. This publication was the result of the first Horniman Research Conference, Collectins and Innovations, held in 1997, which focused on the means, motivations and purposes behind collecting and the ability of collections to communicate alternative messages beyond those they were originally intended to illustrate.
The volume features the following papers: The Eloquence of Objects (Roger Cardinal); Leon Underwood: An Artist Collector (Celina Jeffrey), The Dogs of Fo: Gender, Identiy and Collecting (Sarah Cheang); Scholars and Connoisseurs: Knowledge and Taste. The Seligman Collection fo Chinese Art (Nicky Levell); Naga Indepedence, Women and Radical Collectors: Themes in the Horniman Museum's Naga Collection (Andy West); In the Shadow of the palace: Frederick J. Horniman and His Collections (Ken Teague); Merchants, Musicians and Missionaries: Contribotrs to the Musical Instrument Collection of the Horniman Museum 1898-1998 (Margaret Birley); Quex for Adventure: The Powell-Cotton Family Enterprise From Field to Showcase (Keith Nicklin); From the Fetish to the Speciment: The Ridyard African Collection at the Liverpool Museum 1895-1916 (Louise Tythacott); Discontinuous Histories: The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter and its African Collection 1868-1996 (Nicky Levell); Rational Passions: Frederick John Horniman and Institutional Collectors (Anthony Shelton); The Arts of the Portuguese Empire: The Emergence of Cokwe Art in the Province of Angola (Nuno Porto).
Collectors: Expressions of Self and Other (edited by Anthony Shelton, 2001)
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Performance in Nankai village. April 10th.
Slide of a mother and baby at Thogme Tshongkhang
Keffi market, fish
Title: 1. The Forthcoming Fe[…] for the Local Po[…]. 2. Alterations at S. Pe[…] Lordship Lane
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