Fact or forgery: Dilemmas in museum collections

Museum Anthropology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 3-20

  Gamble, Lynn H ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84984893563     PISSN: 08928339     EISSN: 15481379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mua.2002.25.2.3     Document Type: Article

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