Use the National Museum's three collection fields carefully
The Board describes the National Museum's collections as spanning archaeology, ethnography, and art. Those categories are useful because they warn against treating every displayed object as interchangeable decoration. Record the collection field, object label, material, date, maker or community as published, identifier, displayed credit, and visit date. The institution's broad remit does not authenticate a private work or transfer cultural authority, ownership, reproduction rights, or permission to move sensitive material.
Create a separate evidence chain for the candidate object: creator, title or description, date, medium, dimensions, mass, inscriptions, condition, repairs, prior owners, transaction records, exhibition history, rights, and community context. Explain why any museum comparison is relevant and where it stops. Refer uncertain archaeological origins, sacred associations, contested custody, or attribution to the appropriate Board staff, community, rights holder, lawyer, or subject specialist rather than filling gaps with assumption.



