Mapping Philippine Material Culture

Description

This digital humanities project is a visual inventory of Philippine objects dating to the mid-20th century which are in holdings of museums and private collections outside of the Philippines. The open access online inventory gathers photographic and textual information about these objects and aggregates the data in an easy-to- navigate, all-in-one sortable portal.

Beyond the creation of a consolidated database of baseline information culled from holding institutions’ photos and catalogue entries, the project also introduces annotations by respected Philippine scholars for object entries that may be inaccurate, misinformed or archaic ( e.g. the use of Negrito, or in some cases, the pan-regional term Igorot, where a more specific ethno-linguistic group might be identified.)