• Don’t Ever Break the Chain: Using Archival Field Work in Ecuador to Create Links in The Textile Museum Collection

    Author(s):
    Tracy Meserve (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Subject(s):
    Costume, Textile fabrics, Ecuador, Museum archives, Clothing and dress
    Item Type:
    Presentation
    Tag(s):
    2023 ARLIS/NA Conference
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/78gb-a349
    Abstract:
    This presentation focuses on the digitization and exhibition of an archival collection in a small museum library overseen by a solo librarian, consisting of videos, slides, and field notes created between 1988 and 1989 in the northern highlands of Ecuador. This material contains valuable documentation of the traditional costume and textile-making techniques of Indigenous Ecuadorians from the Imbabura, Chimborazo, and Cotopaxi provinces, which inspired several publications on Ecuadorian textiles as well as an exhibition at the museum in the 1990s. The archive contains the earliest and most comprehensive visual documentation of these traditions and therefore serves as a significant ethnographic resource for scholars in various fields, including art history, anthropology, and Latin American studies. This collection is undergoing digitization with the assistance of a small in-house team with the ultimate goal of making the material widely available to researchers outside of the museum, including scholars in Ecuador.
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    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    8 months ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives

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