Introduction to the "souvenir of egypt"  (Page 3/3)

A warning about hasty examinations of seemingly obvious imagery, including a personal confession from the author

A warning about assuming that historical images such as flags are accurately represented in your artifact

A complete list of the origins and periods of use for our flags

And a discussion of the ways to use the different dates we have found to narrow down the period of the Souvenir of Egypt’sproduction

The faces

How to use the reference section in your university’s library

How to locate a collection of resource materials in the stacks by targeting a specific work in your library's catalog

Using Regional Encyclopedias , Political Dictionaries , Regional Dictionaries , locating General Histories in your library's catalog and Using General Histories and Using Historical Dictionaries .

How to put a face to a name using online search engines

How to locate biographical information in Who's Who

or the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

What is the Cambridge University Press

Then we provide a list of the identities of every portrait along with the periods of their prominence in the regions they are associated with through the flags they are coupled with in thesilk. Then we further narrow the period of our study with the application of this information.

The symbols

What to do when you are faced with a research topic with which you have absolutely no familiarity.

Utilizing Your Advisor

Using the Reference desk at your university library

How to locate a faculty member with a background in the subject you are researching.

What is the protocol for contacting experts.

We demonstrate this protocol through an extensive exchange with a variety of experts at Rice University. Then, we then provide a breakdown of our exchange with the experts as it pertains to our research project.

How to follow a subject thread through your library's catalog.

A consideration of how we view symbols and what we might take for granted

Using particular aspects of a symbol to ascertain its possible meanings

How to locate and use reference materials that deal with the symbolic meaning of your subject.

Researching symbolic themes in art such as nature, natural objects or the ornamental motifs of a specific period.

How to identify the symbols in an image by locating and comparing similar images.

How to identify the genre of your images by looking for its recurrence as a motif.

Using the Oxford Reference Online Core in defining such terms as "orientalism"

Taking the “souvenir of egypt” research project to the next level