Vinculum Categories
Categories
Categories are often both overlapping (vinculum) and mutable. They include, but are not limited to:
- Flora
- Fauna
- Exotica (geographically diverse objects)
- Evidences of Deconstruction in the Building and Construction Trades
- Recreated Artifacts Denied by Dartmouth Realia
- Shoes
- Things, or Fragments of Things Once Owned by, or Associated with, Notable People—Particularly Notable Vermonters
- Fiber, Textiles and Costumes
- Tangled Things
- Round Things
- Objects with Orifices
- Bad Art
- Bad Craft
Amulets and Sacred Objects; Judæica;
Relics from the Civil War/War Between the States
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 Arts Community and the Main Street Museum in 2000.
Vinculum Categories
Vinculum comes from the Latin vincire, vinctum, to bind or to tie. 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.
