Vinculum Categories
Categories
Categories are often both overlapping (vinculum) and mutable. They include, but are not limited to:
- Flora
- Fauna These first two are not as clearly defined as one might think...
- Exotica (geographically diverse objects)
- Evidences of Deconstruction in the Building and Construction Trades
- Left Behind by a Musician
- Pest Infiltration
- Objects with Orifices
- Oxidization
- Round Things
- Shedding and Molting
- Shoes
- Tangled Things
- Things, or Fragments of Things Once Owned by, or Associated with, Notable People—Particularly Notable Vermonters
- Things You Find Outdoors
- Unidentified Mammals
Characteristics or constructs which overlap, providing context for the understanding, or "reading", of objects in multiple series or categories.
The categories as they currently stand were originally developed by a team of experts from the University of Vermont, from the Burlington area second-hand Store Community and the Main Street Museum in 2000.
Vinculum Categories
Vinculum comes from the Latin vincire, vinctum, to bind, tie or chain. Overlapping categories are categories that are represented in a large enough number of artifacts in the Museum collection to warrant special investigation. Oxidization is clearly one of these. So are "Tangled Things" and "Dusty Things" and "Objects with Orifices."
For more into, see Categories.
