Program Records
This accession consists of records maintained by Ellen Roney Hughes, who served on the steering committee of the Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture. The records document the Tenth Yale-Smithsonian Seminar on Material Culture and the essays on material aspects of sports presented at the event, which took place at the …
Website Records
This accession consists of "Material Matters: Newsletter of the Smithsonian Material Culture Forum," an occasional blog maintained by the Smithsonian Material Culture Forum to promote meetings. The blog, crawled March 11, 2016, launched in October 2009. It has been inactive since May 2014. Materials are in electronic format.
Program Records
This accession consists of records documenting program activities of the Smithsonian Material Culture Forum, which is an interdisciplinary group of Smithsonian scholars dedicated to the study and appreciation of the myriad aspects of material culture. The group changed its name from Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture to Smithsonian Material Culture …
Program Records
This accession consists of records documenting the program activities of the Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture (SFMC). Materials include correspondence and memoranda; historical information about SFMC; meeting minutes, including audiotape recordings of selected meetings; reports; articles; budget summaries; and planning group information for the SFMC bulletin.
Program Records
This accession consists of records maintained by Ruth Osterweis Selig, Chair of the Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture (SFMC). Materials include correspondence and memoranda; meeting minutes, including audiotapes of selected meetings; budget summaries; reports; and information regarding the SFMC bulletin The Grapevine.
Material Matters Bulletin
This accession consists of a reference set of Material Matters bulletin, with earlier issues dating back to when the publication was known as The Grapevine. The bulletin documents activities of the Smithsonian Material Culture Forum such as meetings, presentations, articles focusing on exhibitions and research, and matters concerning Smithsonian scholars …
Program Records
This accession consists of records maintained by Brian W. J. LeMay, who served on the steering and publication committees of the Smithsonian Material Culture Forum (SMCF). The group changed its name from Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture to Smithsonian Material Culture Forum in 2002. Materials include correspondence; meeting agendas and minutes …
Tibetan Nomad Material Culture Documentation Project Collection
The Tibetan Nomad Material Culture Documentation Project collection contains 4.4 terabytes of born digital video and photographic material collected by four teams in four traditionally Tibetan counties in three provinces in Western China. The materials document traditional nomadic life: herding, gender roles, the making of household items like baskets and textiles …
Photographs of Native American material culture
The collection consists of photographs of Native American material culture, including textiles and textile-making, drums, masks, statues and carvings, weapons, ceramics and vessels, and jewelry. The photographs may have been plates in a book.
On-Line Academy
0.5 Linear feet (1 box)
This collection contains the video interviews conducted with collectors, scholars, and and other specialists as part of the Anacostia Community Museum's On-Line Academy. The On-line Academy was presented to demonstrate the Museum's commitment to collections development, storage, and preservation, and it encourages patrons to use the information presented along with …
