by Autumn Epple 911.3.181 a. 45cm × 14 cm. This pipe tomahawk, a gift from Brock to Tecumseh during the War of 1812, is an iconic representation of Indigenous and settler alliances during colonial war. Photo by Cory Willmott. (Image from the GKS, for research and community use only). The ...
CROYAN – the French Royal Collections from North America
by Leandro Varison Image of the musée du quai Branly's website. The musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac preserves an important set of objects obtained in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries in the current territory of Canada and the United States. These objects were part of the so-called ...
New and Renewed Institutional Relationships
from multiple contributors A map of GRASAC’s institutional relationships (image from Google Earth). In GRASAC’s inaugural newsletter on March 1, 2020, Laura Peers updated us about her work of renewing GRASAC’s official institutional relationships with museums, cultural centres, ...
Virtual Exhibition: No, not even for Picture: Re-Examining the Native Midwest and Tribes’ Relations to the History of Photography
by Veronica Cook Williamson and Lindsey Willow Smith Portrait of a man named Shoppenagon, taken by George H. Bonnel circa 1890. No, not even for Picture: Re-Examining the Native Midwest and Tribes’ Relations to the History of Photography is an online exhibit that seeks to re-historicize ...
New Publication – Jonathan Lainey, “The Wampum and the Print: Objects Tied to Nicolas Vincent Tsawenhohi’s London Visit, 1824–1825”
by Jonathan Lainey Charles Joseph Hullmandel, hand-coloured lithograph after Edward Chatfield, Nicholas Vincent Tsawenhohi, 1825. Gift of Mrs Walter Stewart, McCord Museum, M20855. Telling the long history and biography of objects’ lives reveals the need to acknowledge the role of material ...