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P08 :: Nyförvärv från Nordamerika vid andra världskrigets slut

Object description

Nyförvärven till Etnografiska museet minskade något under andra världskriget (1939-1945). På grund av krigsläget var det svårare att frakta de nyligen insamlade föremålen till Sverige. Under kriget inköptes i några fall föremål hos antikhandlare. En samling består då ofta bara av ett enda eller några enstaka föremål. En samling som donerades eller såldes till museet under krigsåren kunde ha ägts länge i Sverige innan den kom till museet.

Under fredsåret donerades samling 1945.07. Donatorn var konstnären Carl Oscar Borg, verksam i USA och Sverige. I montern visas ett antal lerkärl från precolumbiska pueblos i Southwest, ett precolumbiskt lerkärl från Honduras och en etnografisk lerfigur från sydvästområdet, även den numera en antikvitet – samtliga föremål ur Carl Oscar Borgs samling 1945.07.

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Nyförvärv från Nordamerika vid andra världskrigets slut

Titel, engelska

New acquisitions from North America at the end of World War II

Beskrivning

Beskrivning - engelska

There were lesser new acquisitions to the Museum of Ethnography during World War II (1939-1945). Because of the war situation the newly collected objects could not be shipped to Sweden without difficulty. In some cases during the war, items were purchased from antique dealers. That type of collection will contain one single or a few objects only. A collection that was donated or sold to the museum in the war period would sometimes have been owned for a long time in Sweden before entering the museum collection.

The collection 1945.07 was donated in the year of peace. The donor was Carl Oscar Borg, an artist working in USA and Sweden. In the showcase there are some pottery vessels from Pre-Columbian pueblos (villages) in the southwest area, one from Honduras and an ethnographic clay figurine – today an antique piece - from the southwest area. All these items are from the collection of Carl Oscar Borg, 1945.07.

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