Use for articles originating in any culture still living or known through relatively recent history when those articles are the concern of ethnographic or ethnological study. For articles from earlier periods found in contexts of archaeological research, prefer "archaeological objects."
Broader Terms
<object genres by location, context or origin> (819)
Used for
anthropological materials; ethnographic materials; ethnological objects; materials, anthropological; materials, ethnographic; objects, ethnographic; objects, ethnological
Alternative Terms ethnographic object
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