Ethnographic collections are gatherings of artefacts which have been collected from indigenous communities from around the world (The Institute of Conservation, 2006) to further the field of ethnography. Ethnography is defined as “the branch of anthropology that deals with scientific description of individual human societies” (Collins English Dictionary, 2012b). Anthropology being “the study of humans, their origins, physical characteristics, institutions, religious beliefs, social relationships, etc.” (Collins English Dictionary,
