From Emily Ing In April 2017, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) made public a promised gift of 91 pieces of Native American art from prominent art collectors, Charles and Valerie Diker. Among these pieces is a piece labelled "Shoulder bag (missing strap)" that can be traced back to an 1845 ...
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GRASACers Awarded at 2024 Canadian Museums Association Awards!
Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy - Outstanding Achievement Award In the Social Impact CategoryFrom the McCord Stewart Museum The exhibition Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy brought together 40 wampum belts under the same roof—a first since museums began collecting them—and illuminated for the ...
Nia:wen, Miigwetch, Thank You, Merci to Data Stewards and GKS Research Assistants
From Cara Krmpotich GRASAC’s Knowledge Sharing Platform runs thanks to a lot of “behind-the-scenes” work. This past year, three masters students – Natasha Fares, Shamina Vastani and Connor White – have been revising records to better reflect that the items in the GKS are frequently ...
GKS Spotlight
A little serendipity can go a long way! A recent email from Wendat artist Manon Sioui led Cara Krmpotich to do a search for Wendat relatives in the GKS. Front of mind were Wendat items in the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin that Cara had been updating records for, but then she noticed a pair of ...
Wampum Visit at Fisher Rare Book Library
From Cara Krmpotich Alan Ojiig Corbiere organized a visit to the University of Toronto’s Fisher Rare Book Library to visit with a wampum belt purchased by the Library in 2016. While the provenance in terms of collectors is well documented, the belt’s origin within Indigenous nations is ...