Undergraduate Honors Thesis
Huichol Gourd Bowls: Manufacture, Materiality, and Meaning in Museum Objects Public Deposited
https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/m900nv92d
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Within the Robert M. Zingg collection in the CU Museum of Natural History is a set of three decorated bowls made from dried gourds, manufactured by the Huichol, an ethnolinguistic group in the highlands of the Sierra Madre Occidental range in Mexico. In this thesis, I detail methods of production of Huichol gourd bowls and conduct a material analysis and an object biography to investigate the connection between meaning and materiality in museum objects. This thesis lies at the boundary between museology and archaeology, where I used non-destructive testing to ensure that these objects and their circumstances of production are preserved for posterity.
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- 2023-04-18
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