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, ...
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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 ...
GRASAC Awarded $200,000 to Build Mobile Community Research Kits
by Cara Krmpotich GRASAC is excited to announce that we have received $200,000 from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and Ontario Research Fund to build 20 “Mobile Community Research Kits” – self-contained backpacks that enable digital cultural heritage work to happen in communities, by ...
From the GKS: A Gift of Alliance: Tecumseh’s Pipe Tomahawk
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 Royal ...