"ARTIST SEX" - Humanities
- Field label
- ARTIST SEX
- Field mnemonic
- ARSX
- Field name
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- Artist/Maker/Designer Sex
- Sexe de l'artiste, de l'artisan ou du concepteur
- Field definition
- This field contains the sex of the artist, maker or designer.
- Heading
- ARTIST, MANUFACTURER, MERCHANT FIELDS
- Comments
- NOTE: This field has NOT been updated as part of the May 2010 Data Dictionary update. Priority for the Data Dictionary update was given to those fields that are required or strongly recommended for Artefacts Canada contribution. The Entry Rules for this field will be updated at a later date.
- Entry rules
- Enter the sex. Attributed data should be followed by space "?". A semicolon and a space should separate multiple entries.
- Cataloguers rules
- See also, other Artist/Maker/Designer fields with mnemonics prefixed by 'AR'.
- Data type
- alpha-numeric string
- Examples
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- male
- female
- unknown
- male ?
- masculin
- féminin
- inconnu
- masculin ?
- Discipline
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- Art
- Field label (French)
- SEXE DE L'ARTISTE
- Field mnemonic (French)
- SEXAR
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