“Authentic provenance”
Nineteenth-century zoological collections consisted of large series of animals, which had been trapped, uprooted, hunted, killed, put into containers, dried, and preserved. From distant far-flung outposts overseas, colonial collections were shipped to central metropolitan institutions where they we...
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Series: | Journal for the History of Knowledge |
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Online Access: | https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view/11951 |