Sentence examples for ethnographic artifacts from inspiring English sources

Should we view the objects as art, ethnographic artifacts, historical records, talismans or religious or spiritual accoutrements?

It provides an opportunity to think about what distinguishes art from ethnographic artifacts and the complications of displaying everything, in pretty much the same fashion, in Western museums.

The Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery in Waigani, a suburb of Port Moresby, has a significant collection of ethnographic artifacts.

The assistant curator of African art at the museum, Ms. Biro will use European and African works, as well as American photographs and ephemera, to illuminate the period between 1914 and 1932, when New York's artists, dealers and connoisseurs first began to appreciate African wood sculptures as art objects rather than ethnographic artifacts.

Semiotic analysis of stone labyrinths of Kola Peninsula done in context of archaeological and ethnographic artifacts which has depicted possible function of stone labyrinths as: 1) operators for synchronization of cosmic and social history; 2) models used for organization of space and time ideas by Protosaam population of Kola region; 3) connection of mystical (myth) and real time (calendars).

The Gambia National Museum, also in Banjul, houses various ethnographic collections that include artifacts, historical documents, and photographs.

Some draw on artifacts and ethnographic data to make their point.

Known as MAS and opened in May 2011, the museum has gathered a permanent collection of 470,000 ethnographic, folk and maritime artifacts from other Antwerp institutions and mounts exhibitions about the city and its engagement with the world.

Comprising some 375 exhibits, including paintings, decorative arts, artifacts, models, ethnographic material, recorded sound and early film from 1837 to 1901, "Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision," Thursday through July 29, professes to present the Victorians as people of ambition and rather liberal societal attitudes and to show how the modern world was forged by their progress.

In the case of many archaeological artifacts or ethnographic objects, for example, minute amounts of preserved material such as traces of pigment or deposits from original use can shed a great deal of light on the original appearance of the sculpture: its history, function, method of manufacture, and, to a degree, the artist's intent.

Data presented are taken from several years' worth of ethnographic interviews, observations, and artifact analyses from within the game design and development community.