About the Collection
About this Philippines Textiles Collection Exhibit
This Exhibit is made up of 140 items from the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA) Philippines Collections. The items in this exhibit include textiles and other wearable garments from the source collection. Images are only available for select textile objects and have been supplied by the Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology.
Some metadata fields may be limited or blank due to gaps in the original data and more complete metadata could potentially be found through UMMAA.
About the Creators of this Exhibit
Theresa Azemar, MSI
Theresa is a second year graduate student pursuing their Master’s of Science in Information at the University of Michigan School of Information. Outside of classes, Theresa works at the University of Michigan’s William L. Clements Library in both the Reference and Manuscript Divisions. Theresa’s academic interest include American intellectual history, and they hope to pursue American Studies subject librarianship post graduation.
Evan Gomish, MSI
Evan is a second year graduate student pursuing their Master’s of Science in Information at the University of Michigan School of Information (expected graduation 2026). Outside of classes, Evan works at the Hatcher Graduate Library as an Ask a Librarian assistant. Evan’s academic and research interests include altmetrics and classification in the social sciences, and they enjoy writing ETL scripts in their free time.
Tanner Schudlich, MSW, MSI
Tanner is a second year graduate student pursuing their Master’s of Science in Information at the University of Michigan School of Information. Outside of classes, Tanner works at the University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center processing archival collections as a graduate student archivist. Tanner’s academic and research interests lie at the intersections of archival science and social work practice and they seek to understand ways that archivists can create more humane archives to make cultural heritage more representative of and accessible to everyone.
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
Using the CollectionBuilder-CSV template and the static website generator Jekyll, this project creates an engaging interface to explore driven by metadata.
