Ethnographic / Non-Western Galleries, general

This collection comprises the records of curator Carol Robbins. The records document Carol's responsiblity for the Textile, Pacific/Indonesian and Pre-Columbian collections over her long tenure. The records have been arranged into nine series: Correspondence, Dealers, Objects and Collections, Installations and Exhibitions, Curatorial, Research Material, Photographs, Notepads and Zale-Lipshy University Hospital Project.

The Correspondence series includes correspondence, incoming and outgoing, with colleagues, scholars, donors, and the public. The Dealer series includes general correspondence with dealers and offers of objects for purchase.

The Objects and Collections series includes records for acquistions of specifc easily identifiable objects with more extensive documentation. The series also contains information on collections offered to the museum, which may or may not have been acquired. The series also contains correspondnece on loans from the permanent collection - there may be some cross-over with the correspondence series. Finally the series contains records for DMA collections including correspondence, memoranda, lists, collection descriptions, and records of projects relating to the respective collection. These collections are: Pre-Columbian, Native North American, Textiles, Guatemalan Textiles, Nasher Collection, Indonesian, Wise Collection and Dozier Estate.

The fourth series, Installations and Exhibitions, contains records relating to permanent collection gallery installations in Carol's areas and exhibitions that she curated.

The fifth series is broadly titled Curatorial and includes records on Carol's participation in museum-wide activities such as conservation and the selection and implementation of collection managment systems; curatorial departmental activities; work with other departments, travel, publications and projects.

The sixth series, title Research Material, contains unpublished papers and small publications not suitable for the library on topics in Carol's areas.

The seventh series is Photographs. The bulk of the photos are contextual images for textiles and Indonsian objects.

The eighth series are notepads used by Carol for her daily activities. The notepads contain general research notes and questions, to do lists, phone messages, notes from phone calls, meeting notes, etc.

The final series documents Carol's work on the creation of a collection of Indonesian textiles for Zale-Lipshy UniversityHospital and includes records on acquisitions, payments, and a related exhibition.

[See Arrangement note for additional information about the contents and arrangement of each series.]