Sentence examples for ethnographic material from inspiring English sources

The Smithsonian certainly will not be getting rid of its valuable ethnographic material, nor should it.

Several private collectors, meanwhile, donated vast acquisitions of Aboriginal ethnographic material – secret and sacred objects, bark art, hunting weapons and Indigenous bones and body parts.

It began acquiring works as early as 1900 and became the first museum in the country to present African objects as art rather than ethnographic material.

Together, they compiled a database of 645 rituals from 74 cultures, drawing on the Human Relations Area Files, a large collection of ethnographic material.

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.

The relevant U.S. legislation is the 1983 Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (CCPIA, or CPIA), which allows the U.S. government to respond to requests from other states party to the UNESCO convention to impose import restrictions on certain classes of archaeological or ethnographic material.

Thanks to Culin, it even opened a study room for artists and designers to view the ethnographic materials he acquired.

The Rio Tinto Center also has a large collection of ethnographic materials, said Sarah George, the museum's executive director.

Composed of scholars, dealers, collectors and representatives of the public, its mandate is to provide the president with recommendations on archaeological and ethnographic materials that, if pillaged, would jeopardize a country's cultural patrimony.

The micro-fading tester has proven to be a very useful tool for determining the light-stability of ethnographic materials without causing any harm to the objects.

Tello [16] was able to treat fragile ethnographic materials with a scCO2 treatment at 40 °C at 35 MPa for 3 7 h, resulting in levels of chlorine containing compounds and heavy metal mercury all being reduced.