Opportunity to acquire a unique collection of textiles and artefacts.

Collector Virginia Bond Korda would like to offer her collection of textiles and some artefacts to a museum in the UK. Virginia is a retired anthropologist, overseas development consultant and textile collector who has amassed a collection over 35 years whilst travelling and working in many areas around the world.

The collection consists of textiles, garments and accessories, as well as some artifacts, representing key techniques, processes, and styles from countries and communities in North, East and West Africa, South and Central Asia, South America and Polynesia. Some items have already been donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum. Virginia is seeking a home for the rest of her collection ideally, but she would also be open to offers from museums wishing to acquire a small number of pieces that fill gaps in collections and fulfil collections development aims.

Virginia is happy to provide a list of objects and a biography, please do contact her directly if you would like to pursue this opportunity.  Virgina Bond Korda virginia@woodhillbarn.co.uk.

Early Career Subcommittee

MEG is establishing an early career subcommittee. We envisage this as a space for early career researchers and practitioners to share ideas and practices with one another and to help shape the work of MEG. Committee members will have the opportunity to: 

• Organise events 
• Produce content for MEG's social media platforms (including subcommittee 'takeovers')
• Liaise with MEG's main committee (including shadowing roles and attending committee meetings)

If you are interested in joining the subcommittee or would like more information, please contact Andrea Potts (a.potts@brighton.ac.uk). 

Introducing digitalpasifik.org

The following project will be of great interest to MEG members. See below for more information about the project and an invitation to get involved. Digital Pasifik write: 

 Invitation to help us make the digitized cultural content of the Pacific easier to find, share, and use by people in and of the Pacific. Through this site, digitalpasifik.org, we intend to bring together the metadata of hundreds of organisations worldwide. By “metadata” we mean the descriptive information about the content, such as the title, URL, description, creator/author. We present your metadata on the site, alongside the metadata of other content partners. You always retain full control over your metadata. We’re looking forward to working with you to help more people discover your Pacific digital content via new and useful tools and services. Please get in touch if you would like to learn more. www.digitalpasifik.org

digitalpasifik.org is supported by the Australian Government and implemented by the National Library of New Zealand | Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa in collaboration with the National Library of Australia.

Please contact Tim Kong Programme Manager – Pacific Virtual Museum Pilot, Tim.Kong@dia.govt.nz or digitalpasifik@dia.govt.nz