PAHMA authority—Department

  • This hierarchical authority replaces the "Responsible Department" list
  • This authority still needs a lot of thought.
  • This authority relies on implicit inheritance (if an object is assigned to "Photographic prints", it is understood to also be assigned to "Media (film and recordings)".
  • This authority may need to be broken down into multiple authorities.

Object types

 

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Select department(s)

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Basketry

 

 

— Basketry impressions

 

 

Biological remains

 

 

— Botanical remains

 

 

— Human remains

 

 

—— Human skeletal remains

 

 

— Faunal remains

 

 

— Shells

 

 

Books and papers

 

 

— Maps

 

 

Casts and molds

 

 

Coins and medals

 

 

Cuneiform tablets

 

 

Furniture

 

 

Lithics

 

 

Media (film and recordings)

 

 

— Audio recordings

 

 

— Photographs and images

 

 

—— Negatives

 

 

—— Photographic prints

 

 

—— Transparencies

 

 

— Video recordings

 

 

Netsuke

 

 

Paintings, prints and drawings

 

 

— Paintings

 

 

— Rubbings and squeezes

 

 

Pottery and ceramics

 

 

Scientific apparatus

 

 

Textiles

 

 

Areas of interest

 

 

Archaeology

 

 

Conservation

 

 

— Metals

 

 

— Organics

 

 

Ethnography

 

 

Linguistics

 

 

Museum history

 

 

NAGPRA

 

 

Physical anthropology

 

 

Registration

 

 

— Accessions

 

 

— Temporary numbers

 

 

—— Temporary basket numbers

 

 

— Unused Museum numbers

 

 

Cultural groups

 

 

Ancient Egypt

 

 

Ancient Mediterranean

 

 

Ancient Mesopotamia

 

 

Native America

 

 

— Native California

 

 

— Ancient Peru

 

 

Geographic regions

 

 

Africa

 

 

Asia

 

 

— China

 

 

— Japan

 

 

— Malaysia

 

 

— Philippines

 

 

Europe

 

 

Oceania

 

 

The Americas

 

 

— North America

 

 

—— Mexico

 

 

—— United States

 

 

——— California

 

 

——— Alaska

 

 

——— Arizona

 

 

——— Nevada

 

 

——— Oregon

 

 

——— Washington

 

 

—— Canada

 

 

— Central America and Caribbean

 

 

— South America

 

 

geographic region unknown

 

 

Accessioned collections

 

 

Alaska Commercial Co. Collection

 

 

Barr Collection

 

 

Bascom Collection

 

 

Bender Collection

 

 

Bernard-Murray Collection

 

 

Blair Memorial Collection

 

 

Design Department Collection

 

 

— Dorothy Liebes Collection

 

 

Gregory Collection

 

 

Phoebe A. Hearst Collection

 

 

Kelly Collection

 

 

Lillard Collection

 

 

Mossman-Vitale Collection

 

 

Whittaker-Tellefsen Collection

 

 

Collecting events

 

 

Reisner's Egyptian expeditions

 

 

Uhle's Peruvian expeditions

 

 

UCAS: Univ. of Calif. Archaeological Survey

 

 

The XML for this controlled list has been revised and rewritten as an authority:

The Spectrum definition is:

Responsible department/section

 

Definition

The responsible department. Omitted from published list, but referred to.

How to record

 

Examples

 

Use

 

The PAHMA definition is:

Department

 

Definition

A high-level grouping of cataloged objects and other materials in the Museum.

How to record

 

Examples

 

Use