Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, telling two million years of human history 🗺
Website: maa.cam.ac.uk/
Collections: collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/
Blog: maadigitallab.org/
- This beautiful textile reminds us of the damage light can cause. Kept folded for years one quarter of it is noticeably faded. To help prevent this we can reduce UV levels by covering windows, use LEDs bulbs and dim lights over objects made from fragile materials.
- 📸 E 1911.111.131 Saput angan, Kota Belud District Borneo. Collector and donor: Ivor Evans. 🔗 collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/497506/
- Check our new online exhibition which explores photographs made by anthropologist L. K. Ananthakrishna Iyer, situating them within the context of caste, reform, and cultural transformation in early 20th-century Kerala. 👇 museums.cam.ac.uk/story/namboo...
- 📸 P.36567.ACH2 Antharjanam (a Namboothiri woman), Kerala, India. Photographer: L. K. Ananthakrishna Iyer, c.1901-8. 🔗 collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/photographs/329839/
