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 ...
GRASAC Hack-A-Thon First Pilot
by Irmarie Fraticelli-Rodríguez From Friday, January 22 to Saturday, January 23, a small number of GRASAC members and research assistants took part in a trial run of a "data-a-athon" as a pilot idea for a data science hackathon. Participants from different ...