Where now?
n The availability of computers, GIS systems and
rapid access to on-line
catalogues has made the time
necessary to compile this type of material much shorter
n If the intellectual will were present,
then much of this older material
could be digitised and linked
to archaeological and linguistic databases.
n This would require that anthropologists
and others see the point and
this is rather unlikely. Anthropologists
seem to be increasing embarrassed
by museum collections and act to distance
themselves from these ‘colonial’ acquisitions.