![]() ![]() Generated a prolific amount of published work from films, articles, and books including Elizabeth Marshall We chose to start in the middle of theĬollection, working with the materials from the 1955 expedition, which Records, and create culturally sensitive and accurate descriptions We work to scan high resolution images, edit database Stereoscopic transparencies, and paper records.Īngela (Kyung Ah) Lee scans Marshall collection items By the end of the project, the archives team willĬreate close to 50,000 new media files from the negatives, prints, slides, To complete this work, a team in the Peabody’s Archives department Institute of Museum and Library Science (IMLS) grant to digitize and make theĬollection available through its public database. Marshall, 2001.29.876įast forward to 2020 when the Peabody Museum received an Brew agreed and set up an advisoryĬommittee, minor financial support, and permit sponsorships. In 2001 Lorna Marshall, the family matriarch, donated the expedition slides and Brew, then director of the Peabody, to request institutionalīacking for their trip. Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology started at the onset of the expeditions. The relationship between the Marshalls and the Peabody Most significant anthropological field projects of the twentieth century. Years, eight expeditions, and close to 40,000 images resulted in one of the Relationship between the Marshall Family and people of the Kalahari Desert. Raytheon Company, and his 17-year-old son John trekked into the deserts of Southern Africa seeking the famed “Lost City of the Kalahari.” They did not find a lost city, but this expedition began a life-long Marshall Family Archives Digitization Project ![]() Video and image: Courtesy of Amanda Kressler, For anyone doing the math, this move required two art handlers, two exhibit professionals, one conservator, and one very nervous collections manager.īut we’ve made it look easy in this 30-second time-lapse movie of its installation! ![]() The cast has an interior wooden frame and the over one hundred-year-old plaster is fragile and can break if not handled carefully, so transferring the chacmool from a wheeled metal storage container onto its exhibit mount required assistance from professional art handlers. Statue originally found at the Post-Classic Maya site of Chichen Itza in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Along with approximately one thousand other casts in the collection, this one was created in the late 19 thcentury and was on display at the museum until the mid-1980s. This plaster cast ( PM 92-50-20/C1099) is a model of a chacmool One of the more challenging tasks was moving a 350-pound plaster cast of a statue from off-site storage, where it has lived for the past three decades, into the gallery. Museums of Science & Culture colleagues to install objects for our exhibit, Muchos Mexicos: Crossroads of the Americas. Peabody Museum collections staff have been working with Harvard ![]()
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