Sovati Louden-Smith

Curatorial Assistant

Collections enquiries, care of archives and deposits, photographic library for the department, some collections work with visits to outstations

Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas

Telephone: +44 (0 20 7323 8046
Email: ssmith @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Sovati Smith studied Art History and Visual Media at Birkbeck University while working in the Department of Prehistory and Europe at the British Museum. Since joining the department two years ago she has studied Art and Anthropology on the British Museum/Birkbeck collaborative course run in conjunction with the department and hopes to do postgraduate research in this field in the future.

At the moment she is working on developing and maintaining Ethnographic Documents (supplementary information on the collections or related subjects) covering Africa, Oceania and the Americas . These can be accessed through the Centre for Anthropology.

She is also working on conserving and improving the care of the Archives Collection of the department and day to day management of the Deposit Room.

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