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Environments (object groupings)

Scope note

Use for the aggregate of physical things, conditions, and influences surrounding and affecting an organism, object, or structure. For the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their habitat, use "ecology." For the concept of the external world, including the forces at work in it and the nonhuman life inhabiting it, perceived by human beings as separate and independent from themselves, their activities and civilization, use "Nature."

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AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300055325

Term used for

setting

Equivalent Terms used

environment (object grouping)

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Folding fan

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Spoon and fork

Maker(s)

Silversmith: unmarked

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