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Cataloguing Quiz: the answer

Man       Homo sapiens sapiens   a) Pending, cf. Letter of Donation.

The answer to our cataloguing quiz, what object is being described?, is… a human penis. I bet the Icelandic Phallologigal Museum can’t wait to get its hands on that specimen.

Cataloguers of the museum world stand up and be counted

“With his flowing white beard and donnish, almost magical air, Irving Finkel looks every inch the learned scholar.”

• Ed Davey, ‘The 99% of the British Museum not on show’, BBC London, 31 march 2010, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8595000/8595594.stm>

AW: Yep that’s curators for you. Hobbity little wizards every last one of them, but when they work on a cataloguing project that ‘At the current rate […] will take two centuries to complete’, I think that demands our respect. Well done cataloguers everywhere!

And stay tuned for the answer to yesterday’s cataloguing conundrum… what item at our mystery museum belonging to ‘Man Homo sapiens’ and is waiting donation?

Cataloguing quiz

Here at Art Wank we love a bit of cataloguing. For a fun quiz can you guess?

(i) which museum this catalogue entry could have come from?

and

(ii) what the object is?

Man Homo sapiens sapiens a) Pending, cf. Letter of Donation.