How to Catalogue an Artifact
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- Date
- 1979 – 1979
- Medium
- mixed media; photograph; textual material on card board, foam core backing
- Catalogue Number
- WyJ.13.01
- Description
- Framed step-by-step instructions on how to catalogue an artifact ca. 1980 using Jon Whyte’s pet dog as the “artifact.” Includes Polaroid photographs of the various steps alongside typed instructions, a “ARTIFACT CLASSIFICATION CODES” sheet printed on green paper, and a “PETER AND CATHARINE WHYTE FO…
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- Title
- How to Catalogue an Artifact
- Date
- 1979 – 1979
- Medium
- mixed media; photograph; textual material on card board, foam core backing
- Dimensions
- 85.5 x 83 cm
- Description
- Framed step-by-step instructions on how to catalogue an artifact ca. 1980 using Jon Whyte’s pet dog as the “artifact.” Includes Polaroid photographs of the various steps alongside typed instructions, a “ARTIFACT CLASSIFICATION CODES” sheet printed on green paper, and a “PETER AND CATHARINE WHYTE FOUNDATION ARTIFACT FORM” sheet printed on yellow paper.
- Credit
- Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- WyJ.13.01
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