Showing posts with label Pitt Rivers Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pitt Rivers Museum. Show all posts
Saturday, 9 March 2019

Boxes of possibility--and frustration

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[Republished from activehistory.ca, 4 March 2019] Museum collections are legacies of imperial and colonial histories. The dynamics of th...
Tuesday, 6 November 2018

Wild Rice wars: curating from a different place

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Since last May, I have been curating for the Pitt Rivers Museum from a very different place. I am now based in Canada, and respectfull...
Friday, 13 April 2018

'Decolonise your budgets' and other reflections on the Museum Ethnographers' Group conference

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What a lively and productive set of discussions it has been over the last few days at the Museum Ethnographers' Group conference as we w...
Wednesday, 11 April 2018

'Decolonising the Museum in Practice'

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Over the next two days, the Pitt Rivers Museum will host over one hundred delegates for the Museum Ethnographers' Group conference. ...
Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Haida weaver Lisa Hageman Yahgujanaas visits ancestral collections in UK

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I am so happy that the Origins and Futures Fund has been able to partner with the YVR Foundation this year to begin a bursary programme for...
Sunday, 24 September 2017

Strawberries and smoke

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This summer, I was privileged to spend time with colleagues rehousing the human remains at the Museum’s off-site storage facility. This was...
Friday, 9 June 2017

The Great Box goes home

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Recently, I attended a potlatch on Haida Gwaii in which a respected activist, artist and political leader stepped into the clan chieftainsh...