Summary information

Study title

Foreign Ethnographic Collections in Scotland, 18th-20th Century

Creator

Kwasnik, E., Scottish Museums Council

Willett, F., University of Glasgow

Idiens, D., National Museums of Scotland

Study number / PID

3505 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-3505-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The purpose of the study was to examine foreign ethnographic material in Scotland, and record it and its environmental conditions. The main disciplines covered include ethnography, social anthropology, fine arts and decorative arts.
Main Topics:

Location, description, acquisition and provenance of ethnographic object(s); general and environmental conditions of ethnographic collections; museum policies towards ethnographic material. This dataset includes tailor made browsing software.

History

Data collection period

01/02/1991 - 01/05/1993

Country

Scotland

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Foreign ethnographic objects.

National

Universe

Foreign (ie non-European) ethnographic material in Scotland.

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Transcription of existing materials

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1997

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

(1994) A Wider World. Collections of Foreign Ethnography in Scotland, Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland.ISBN 0948636564