Excavating MacGregor: re-connecting a colonial museum collection

挖掘麦格雷戈：重新连接殖民博物馆的藏品

• 批准号: DP150103518
• 负责人: Prof Anne Clarke
• 金额: $ 32.97万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-02-15 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150103518
• 关键词: Excavating; MacGregor; re; connecting; colonial

Sensing the impacts of colonisation, the first Administrator of British New Guinea William MacGregor made a significant collection of objects specifically for its future citizens. This comprehensive legacy of 13 000 objects did not remain in the country but was dispersed to three Australian and six overseas museums. Our aim is to re-assemble and re-connect this material by 'excavating' its private and official components. This research aims to focus on the makers and traders to disentangle the social relationships embedded in the objects. Using material-centred, assemblage-based archaeological approaches, we aim to investigate how indigenous groups used objects to negotiate with the new colonial government.

英属新几内亚的第一任行政长官威廉·麦格雷戈（William MacGregor）感受到殖民化的影响，专门为未来的公民收集了大量物品。这13000件物品的综合遗产没有留在该国，而是分散到三个澳大利亚和六个海外博物馆。我们的目标是通过“挖掘”其私人和官方成分来重新组装和重新连接这些材料。本研究的目的是聚焦于制造商和交易商，以解开嵌入在对象中的社会关系。使用以材料为中心，组装为基础的考古方法，我们的目标是调查土著群体如何使用对象与新的殖民政府进行谈判。