The Arna Jharna Museum or The Desert Museum of Rajasthan in Jodhpur hosts a variety of brooms — tools for sweeping dust — that are highly likely to be interpreted as ethnographic artefacts in the conventional sense of the term. After all, why would brooms be placed inside a museum? Adopting a museological gaze, precipitated by the museum context, visitors — familiar with the conventional provenance stance that museums embrace — are likely to look for information that is useful in explaining the brooms’ chain of ownership. This is because provenance for ethnographic artefacts entails information about their origin and source coupled with a trail of their ownership akin to walking into a museum and trying to understand who donated a precious piece of artwork or an antiquity; information that, in other words, helps in establishing an artefact’s authenticity and legal title.