Objects of Instruction Credits
Curator and Project Director: Anna Contadini
Exhibition Officer: John Hollingworth
Graphic Design: Taylor McKenzie
Photography: Glenn Ratcliffe
Thanks are due to the following individuals for supporting the project: in SOAS, Colin Bundy, Tom Tomlinson, Paul Webley, and the other colleagues and students who were members of The Treasures of SOAS Group: Pamela Barrett, Crispin Branfoot, John T. Carpenter, Craig Clunas, Philip Denwood, Charles Gore, Elizabeth Moore, Stacey Pierson, Susannah Rayner, Mehreen Razvi, Ünver Rüstem and Yoshiko Yasumura.
During the research for the texts valuable advice was also offered by the following individuals in and beyond SOAS: Anna Allott, Kes (Father) Berhanu Bisrat, Sheila Canby, Timothy Clark, Barbara Cross, Sona Datta, Drew Gerstle, Joost Hagen, Charlotte Horlyck, Joanne Ichimura, Ralph Isaacs, Ajit Koujalgi, Ulrich Kratz, Htein Lin, Jenny Lister, Win Maung (Tampawaddy), San San May, Justin McDaniel, Aung Myint, Vrej Nersessian, Lukas Nickel, Alison Ohta, John Okell, Paisarn Piammattawat, Timon Screech, Rosemary Seton, Emily Shovelton, Robert Skelton, Wang Tao, Mitiku Gabrehiwot Tesfay, Ellis Tinios, Tania Tribe, Oliver Watson and Roderick Whitfield. Valuable advice on the display layout was offered by Jean Rankine.
For display permission thanks are due to: the Britain-Burma Society, the Council for Word Mission, the Cuming Museum, the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Corporation, the Percival David Foundation and the private donors who wish to remain anonymous.
This project, together with the creation of the new space for the permanent display of the SOAS collections (the Foyle Special Collections Gallery), has been made possible by the generous funding of The Foyle Foundation and by the support of The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
