Dale Idiens
Biographic Data
| ID | 2799231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dale Idiens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dale |
| FAMILY NAME | Idiens |
| SIGNATURE | IDIENS D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Casket of Savage Curiosities: Eighteenth-century objects from north-eastern North America in the Farquharson collection
This paper describes a private collection of early Woodlands Indian artefacts which was acquired through eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Scottish military connections with north-eastern North America. The unusual association of original documentation with the material enhances the importance of the collection, adding to our knowledge of the age, provenance and range of eighteenth-century Native American object types.
Lecture Summaries
Six lecture summaries:The Northumbrian church at WhithornMonuments on record: the work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland at the end of the 20th centuryCanadian Ethnology and the Wilson BrothersFleas, Flies and Farmers, an entomology of archaeologyHigh Society on the Antonine frontierA history of the Arts & Crafts movement in Edinburgh, 1885-1939
Patterns of Life: New Permanent Gallery
New Benin Discoveries in Scotland
In 1972, while on a visit to the McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock, in the west of Scotland, I came across four Benin figures, two of cast brass and two of carved ivory, in a broom cupboard. The trustees of the museum, once made aware of their rarity, deposited them on loan in the national collection in Edinburgh for security reasons. The National Museums of Scotland have now acquired the objects to enhance their existing Benin collection. …
The Hausa of Northern Nigeria: A Catalogue of the R. E. Miller Collection and Others in the Royal Scottish Museum
Cameroun Weaving
Textiles of Africa
African Art at the Royal Scottish Museum
of widespread public interest in manufactured products and was intended to be a museum of the industry of the world. This aim was interpreted in the widest sense, and as a result the collections of the museum developed to include not only technology and science but also geology, natural history, decorative arts, and ethnography of the world. Although active collecting began in 1855, part of the holdings was formed earlier, having originally belon…
Guide to the National Museum, Oron
Crooked Beak of Heaven
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Crooked Beak of Heaven
Guide to the National Museum, Oron
African Art at the Royal Scottish Museum
of widespread public interest in manufactured products and was intended to be a museum of the industry of the world. This aim was interpreted in the widest sense, and as a result the collections of the museum developed to include not only technology and science but also geology, natural history, decorative arts, and ethnography of the world. Although active collecting began in 1855, part of the holdings was formed earlier, having originally belon…
Textiles of Africa
Cameroun Weaving
The Hausa of Northern Nigeria: A Catalogue of the R. E. Miller Collection and Others in the Royal Scottish Museum
New Benin Discoveries in Scotland
In 1972, while on a visit to the McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock, in the west of Scotland, I came across four Benin figures, two of cast brass and two of carved ivory, in a broom cupboard. The trustees of the museum, once made aware of their rarity, deposited them on loan in the national collection in Edinburgh for security reasons. The National Museums of Scotland have now acquired the objects to enhance their existing Benin collection. …
Patterns of Life: New Permanent Gallery
Lecture Summaries
Six lecture summaries:The Northumbrian church at WhithornMonuments on record: the work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland at the end of the 20th centuryCanadian Ethnology and the Wilson BrothersFleas, Flies and Farmers, an entomology of archaeologyHigh Society on the Antonine frontierA history of the Arts & Crafts movement in Edinburgh, 1885-1939
A Casket of Savage Curiosities: Eighteenth-century objects from north-eastern North America in the Farquharson collection
This paper describes a private collection of early Woodlands Indian artefacts which was acquired through eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Scottish military connections with north-eastern North America. The unusual association of original documentation with the material enhances the importance of the collection, adding to our knowledge of the age, provenance and range of eighteenth-century Native American object types.
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