maeve sunday july 1

Even more visitor research today! We passed out Hopi (?) cuchina dolls as rewards, which people seemed to enjoy. Isabella and I laughed about the irrelevance of the dolls to our surveys and how some visitors seemed a bit thrown off by the culture shift! The new questions about African art were interesting. Most people told me things about the art/artifact boundary that I think we'd expected to hear--artifacts are tools, art is aesthetic value--but a few visitors, once asked to think about the division, stopped their categorizing and said things about the categories being artificial, fluid, or overlapping. A surprising number of today's visitors didn't speak enough English to do the surveys--I had two aborted attempts, a handful of denials, and one full interview with a woman who spoke in French while her friend translated anything she or I didn't understand.

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