{"id":1822,"date":"2022-04-01T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2022-04-15T23:07:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T23:07:16","slug":"former-grasac-ras-research-questions-the-provenance-of-the-vaticans-indigenous-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1822","title":{"rendered":"Former GRASAC RA\u2019s Research Questions the Provenance of the Vatican\u2019s Indigenous Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>from CBC News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/gloria-bell.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/gloria-bell.jpg 600w, https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/gloria-bell-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Image from CBC News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gloria Bell, an assistant professor of art history at McGill University, has been researching the Vatican&#8217;s collection of Indigenous cultural belongings and artwork for nearly a decade.&nbsp;She is challenging the Vatican&#8217;s official account of how it acquired tens of thousands of Indigenous artifacts from countries around the world \u2014 including Canada.&nbsp;The Vatican claims the artifacts were sent as gifts to the Pope.&nbsp;Bell&#8217;s&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/crossworks.holycross.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1054&amp;context=jgc\" target=\"_blank\">research suggests that assertion glosses over a contested history<\/a>&nbsp;of Indigenous people working under duress to create these items \u2014 along with evidence that some of those&nbsp;cultural belongings&nbsp;may have been stolen from communities.<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\">Read More Here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CBC News Gloria Bell, an assistant professor of art history at McGill University, has been researching the Vatican&#8217;s collection of Indigenous cultural belongings and artwork for nearly a decade.&nbsp;She is challenging the Vatican&#8217;s official account of how it acquired tens of thousands of Indigenous artifacts from countries around the world \u2014 including Canada.&nbsp;The Vatican&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=1822\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[128],"class_list":{"0":"post-1822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newsletter-stories","7":"tag-gloria-bell","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}