Rediscovering Identities is the culmination of a semester of research conducted by University at Buffalo undergraduate and graduate students, in an interdisciplinary course on Museum Management offered by the Department of Anthropology. The exhibit explores how research into the function, cultural origin, and provenance of objects such as a Native American ceramic pot, Mesopotamian and Egyptian figurines, and an Inuit ritual mask invites rediscovery of the role of these artifacts in creating cultural identities. The exhibit is a selection of seven objects from the 1,100-piece Cravens collection, which contains archaeological and ethnographic objects from around the world that date as far back as 4,500 B.C.

 

Rediscovering Identities features a cross-cultural display case, as well as three-dimensional scans of the objects, which allows them to be viewed with precision from all angles.