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Our latest book! It describes our collection. And its full of pictures!  
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Our latest booklette! It describes our collection. And its full of pictures!  
  
 
<blockquote>''Excerpt:'' "We have been called 'an ongoing experiment in new taxonomies.' This experimentation is now facilitated by our website which features a wiki code 'Catawiki' in which objects and sub-species are categorized and recategorized in a kind of endless summer of redefinition, bundling in boxes, tying with string, and putting into drawers. Each object in the collection will have its own page in the Catawiki.  
 
<blockquote>''Excerpt:'' "We have been called 'an ongoing experiment in new taxonomies.' This experimentation is now facilitated by our website which features a wiki code 'Catawiki' in which objects and sub-species are categorized and recategorized in a kind of endless summer of redefinition, bundling in boxes, tying with string, and putting into drawers. Each object in the collection will have its own page in the Catawiki.  

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Our latest booklette! It describes our collection. And its full of pictures!

Excerpt: "We have been called 'an ongoing experiment in new taxonomies.' This experimentation is now facilitated by our website which features a wiki code 'Catawiki' in which objects and sub-species are categorized and recategorized in a kind of endless summer of redefinition, bundling in boxes, tying with string, and putting into drawers. Each object in the collection will have its own page in the Catawiki. Our collections and interests range from local history, to the experiences of the peoples of the Americas, to all the world—even to the very Cosmos itself. Our scope is no less than everything, everywhere, and our aim is no less than to identify the unnoticed relationships (whether noble, or somewhat tawdry) that tie them, and us, all together..."

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