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245 00 $aEngaging Smithsonian objects through science, history, and the arts /$cedited by Mary Jo Arnoldi.
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264 1 $aWashington, D.C. :$bSmithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,$c[2016]
300 $av, 310 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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500 $a"A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMaterial Matters : Ways of Knowing Museum Objects / Mary Jo Arnoldi -- James Smithson's Crypt : Smithson's Crypt and the Search for a Proper Memorial / Richard E. Stamm -- James Smithson's Remains : A Biological Perspective / David R. Hunt -- Thomas Wilfred's Opus 152, "Study in Depth" : An Artist's Experiment with Lighting Viewed by a Historian of Technology / Bernard Finn -- Silent Visual Music : Thomas Wilfred's Opus 152, "Study in Depth" / Judith Zilczer -- A Not So "Gentle" History : Violent Explosions at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii / Richard S. Fiske -- Objectifying Pele as Performance, Material Culture, and Cultural Landscape / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- How to Identify a Stradivarius Stringed Instrument / Gary Sturm and Bruno Frohlich -- Violins from the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and Private Collections : A Pilot Comparative Study / Bruno Frohlich and Gary Sturm -- The Huey 65-10126 Helicopter : Steed for the "Sky Calvary" / Roger Connor -- Huey 65-10126 : A Curator's Journey of Discovery / Peter Jakab -- A Central African Throwing Knife : A Throwing Knife through Production and Use / S. Terry Childs -- A Throwing Knife in Motion : The Journey from the Congo to the Smithsonian / Mary Jo Arnoldi -- The Iron Lung : The Iron Lung in History and Cultural Memory / Katherine Ott -- Whatever Happened to the Iron Lung? : Visitor Memories of an Iconic Medical Object / Matthew A. White -- Augustus Washington's Portrait of John Brown Augustus Washington : Daguerreotypist of John Brown / Ann Shumard -- In the Service of Abolitionism : Augustus Washington's Daguerreotype Portrait of John Brown / Frank H. Goodyear III -- The 'Sole' Survivors : The Smithsonian's Ruby Slippers / Dwight Blocker Bowers -- The Amazing Ruby Slippers and Their Magical Travels / Ellen Roney Hughes -- Collecting a National Tragedy : The National Museum of American History and September 11 / James B. Gardner -- A Moment in Time : September 11, 2001: Relevance of the Smithsonian Human Skeleton Collections / Marilyn R. London.
520 $aHow do we come to know the world around us? What about worlds apart from our own--outer space, distant cultures, or even long-past eras of history?Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts explores these questions and suggests an answer: we come to know our world and worlds apart through the objects that represent them. --Publisher.
650 0 $aMaterial culture.
650 0 $aMuseum exhibits$xSocial aspects.
610 20 $aSmithsonian Institution$vExhibitions.
610 20 $aSmithsonian Material Culture Forum.
700 1 $aArnoldi, Mary Jo.
852 00 $bfaxlc$hGN406$i.E655 2016