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The Shepherd's Purse: Artifact or Artistic Motif?

(Anatomy of a Research Project)

Copyright 2002, 2004 Heather Rose Jones, all rights reserved

This site can be read as a continuous article by starting at the Introduction and following the Next links from each page. For convenience, all the major pages are listed here.

Introduction

Methodology

• Initial Stimulus
• Expanding the Search
• Focusing the Search and Exploring the Limits
• Questioning the Results
• Experimentation and Presentation
• Artifact or Artistic Motif?
• Why Shepherds?

Description of the Artifacts

• General Characteristics and Chronology
• Types
  • Netting
  • Sashes and Sash-like Pouches
  • Plain Crescent-Shaped Pouches
  • Strongly Shaped Pouches
  • Non-Sheperd-Type Pouches
  • Non-Shepherds with Shepherds Purses
• Attached Objects
  • Knives
  • Scissors or Shears
  • Combs
  • Mirrors
  • Musical Instruments
  • Boxes
  • Drawstring Purse
  • Unidentified Objects
• Evidence for Construction Details

The Reconstruction Attempts

• Netting Experiments
• Sash Experiments
• Cresent-Shape Experiments
• Flapped Pouch Experiments
• Attachment Experiments
• Other Types

Catalog of Representations

• Date and Location
• Genre
  • Annunciation to the Shepherds
  • Adoration of the Shepherds
  • Other Biblical Shepherds
  • Calendar Scenes
  • Other Pastoral Scenes
• Bibliography

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