by Krista Barclay Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung, July 2019. Photo by Kyle Byron. Through Ryan McMahon’s new CBC documentary Stories from the Land you will learn about Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung (the place of the long rapids) located on Manidoo Ziibi (Rainy River) in Northwestern Ontario. Owned and operated ...
Keeping connected, the British Museum
by Amber Lincoln Arctic: Culture and Climate 360˚ Tour from the British Museum (screenshot). I’m grateful to hear about the culture, art, heritage and histories of the regions surrounding the Great Lakes. I’m one of two permanent curators in the Americas (north and south) section at the ...
From the GKS: A cloth woman’s beaded hood
by Sheila Wheesk The Daphne Cockwell Gallery dedicates the beaded hood to the First People’s art & culture exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum. This women’s cloth beaded hood is an acquisition from the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust. Beaded hoodMaker: James Bay CreeMedium: Wool, ...
Affective Responses to Normalized Violence in Museums
by Stephanie Mach Over the past year, many museums have reflected on their internal structural inequalities. Anthropology museums face the added challenge of addressing the history of anthropological collecting, display, and research. Reflecting on recent protests concerning the Penn Museum’s ...
From the GKS: Pipe
by Bradley Clements Unknown Haudenosaunee artist, pipe. Currently in the British Museum, Am,Dc.44. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 27141. In his doctoral dissertation, Alan Ojiig Corbiere (2019, 80) explains ...