Exercise: Write an Object Label
Directions:
Write an object label for this object in one of the following contexts (keep in mind what you have learned about interpretation and museum missions):
- In a vitrine at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in a show of recent acquisitions made possible by the Young Friends of Art.
- On a dining table at the Benjamin Harrison House surrounded by other accoutrements of elaborate table service and dining.
- In a cupboard at Conner Prairie along with the few items brought west with the settlers.
- In a "sand box dig" of mysteries in history at the Children's Museum.
- At the Eiteljorg Museum in an exhibit on Southern New England Native Americans. It is in an exhibit case with no human remains but with a collection of grave goods removed in the early 20th century from a Native American burial in Rhode Island.