Added objects and comparison roles

Organizers can supplement deposited possessions with ordinary acquired material, institution-owned equipment, newly supplied objects. They identify each object's actual history and intended role in the study or installation.

A supplied object can fill a practical gap, begin with little recorded biography, provide a comparison with a richly documented deposit, become available for later acquisition. Organizers may also use a decoy to examine assumptions about an object's personal significance. They record the information presented and the intended later explanation so researchers can distinguish supplied history from a visitor's inference.

A plain cup may attract little initial attention, then acquire accounts through repeated hospitality. A familiar manufactured object may prompt an elaborate personal association despite limited supplied context. Researchers compare these cases with deposited possessions through developing biographies, information timing, a worked example.

The same supplied object can serve several practical roles over time. Staff update its custody, condition, accounts, availability for transfer. A later meaningful history receives its actual events and authors rather than a retrospective fictional origin.