I was a bit late on Friday, but I spent the first half hour or so writing my blog post from Thursday. Dani and I then set about interviewing visitors at about 11 AM. I only got two interviews before we ate lunch around noon, and nobody came out of the exhibit until my next interview at 1:22 PM.
In total, I interviewed 9 people/groups, doubling my interview count from Thursday. One of these visitors was Dani's friend Noura who goes to Bryn Mawr, but she didn't really know what we were looking for, so it shouldn't really be biased. When I asked her if she disliked anything about the exhibit, she remarked that the hanging figures who apparently symbolize punishment were a really terrible and alarming choice (exactly as Monique had noticed on the first day). A later visitor I spoke to remarked that she'd been very impressed by the skill of the "primitive tribes" of the 15th century.
Around 4 PM, there hadn't been anyone in the exhibit for about 20 minutes, so we decided to go home and transcribe some of our interviews. I transcribed two more of my interviews, both of which had been with 3 visitors, which was kind of difficult to transcribe. The people in these interviews all liked the textiles, power figures, and masks. One of them asked me if my job as an intern was "to make the prompts," which I thought was hilarious. When I told them that, no, that was not my job, they seemed more comfortable.
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