Catherine A. Nichols is an Advanced Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies at Loyola University Chicago, where she serves as Director and Curator of the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection. Previously she was the Assistant Curator at Arizona State University's Museum of Anthropology. Her work on exchanges at the Smithsonian Institution and Field Museum has been published in Museum Anthropology, Museum and Society, and History and Anthropology. In addition to curatorial work, she is currently developing critical digital projects with museum databases and archival systems.

• List of Illustrations and TablesList of AbbreviationsChronologyLists of Relevant Smithsonian Institution/USNM PersonnelAcknowledgementsIntroduction: A Bowl’s Journey, There and Back AgainPart I: The Museum Through the Lens of Specimen ExchangeChapter 1. The Smithsonian and the Museum: Specimen Exchange as a Bridge between Joseph Henry’s Research Institution and Spencer Baird’s Grand CabinetChapter 2. Spencer Baird’s U.S. National Museum & Early Trends in Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates (1861-1880)Chapter 3. Networking the National Museum: Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates (1882-1920)Chapter 4. Giving & Receiving: Specimen Exchange Between Curators & the Shaping of Anthropological CollectionsPart II: The DuplicateChapter 5. Duplicates: Specimens in MotionChapter 6. Catalogs, Classification and Contingency: Designating DuplicatesConclusion: Museum Pasts and FuturesAppendixBibliographyIndex

“This is an excellent and important contribution to scholarship…(Nichols) has also done a fine job of explaining how a focus on duplicate exchange transforms our entire (mis)understanding of museums as places only for accumulation and preservation.” • Ira Jacknis, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Catherine A. Nichols is an Advanced Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies at Loyola University Chicago, where she serves as Director and Curator of the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection. Previously she was the Assistant Curator at Arizona State University's Museum of Anthropology. Her work on exchanges at the Smithsonian Institution and Field Museum has been published in Museum Anthropology, Museum and Society, and History and Anthropology. In addition to curatorial work, she is currently developing critical digital projects with museum databases and archival systems.

• List of Illustrations and TablesList of AbbreviationsChronologyLists of Relevant Smithsonian Institution/USNM PersonnelAcknowledgementsIntroduction: A Bowl’s Journey, There and Back AgainPart I: The Museum Through the Lens of Specimen ExchangeChapter 1. The Smithsonian and the Museum: Specimen Exchange as a Bridge between Joseph Henry’s Research Institution and Spencer Baird’s Grand CabinetChapter 2. Spencer Baird’s U.S. National Museum & Early Trends in Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates (1861-1880)Chapter 3. Networking the National Museum: Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates (1882-1920)Chapter 4. Giving & Receiving: Specimen Exchange Between Curators & the Shaping of Anthropological CollectionsPart II: The DuplicateChapter 5. Duplicates: Specimens in MotionChapter 6. Catalogs, Classification and Contingency: Designating DuplicatesConclusion: Museum Pasts and FuturesAppendixBibliographyIndex

“This is an excellent and important contribution to scholarship…(Nichols) has also done a fine job of explaining how a focus on duplicate exchange transforms our entire (mis)understanding of museums as places only for accumulation and preservation.” • Ira Jacknis, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Catherine A. Nichols is an Advanced Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies at Loyola University Chicago, where she serves as Director and Curator of the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection. Previously she was the Assistant Curator at Arizona State University's Museum of Anthropology. Her work on exchanges at the Smithsonian Institution and Field Museum has been published in Museum Anthropology, Museum and Society, and History and Anthropology. In addition to curatorial work, she is currently developing critical digital projects with museum databases and archival systems.

• List of Illustrations and TablesList of AbbreviationsChronologyLists of Relevant Smithsonian Institution/USNM PersonnelAcknowledgementsIntroduction: A Bowl’s Journey, There and Back AgainPart I: The Museum Through the Lens of Specimen ExchangeChapter 1. The Smithsonian and the Museum: Specimen Exchange as a Bridge between Joseph Henry’s Research Institution and Spencer Baird’s Grand CabinetChapter 2. Spencer Baird’s U.S. National Museum & Early Trends in Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates (1861-1880)Chapter 3. Networking the National Museum: Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates (1882-1920)Chapter 4. Giving & Receiving: Specimen Exchange Between Curators & the Shaping of Anthropological CollectionsPart II: The DuplicateChapter 5. Duplicates: Specimens in MotionChapter 6. Catalogs, Classification and Contingency: Designating DuplicatesConclusion: Museum Pasts and FuturesAppendixBibliographyIndex

“This is an excellent and important contribution to scholarship…(Nichols) has also done a fine job of explaining how a focus on duplicate exchange transforms our entire (mis)understanding of museums as places only for accumulation and preservation.” • Ira Jacknis, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology