Brave New World Curator:
curating the Americas collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Ceremony to release a robe from the loom
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One of the many things I love about Haida culture is the appreciation of finely made works of art. Evelyn Vanderhoop, a master weaver, has f...
Thursday, 13 August 2015
Visiting the Great Box at home
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Haida Gwaii, July 2016. Photograph by Laura Peers. When there are long-term, established relationships between museums and communiti...
Saturday, 4 July 2015
Frank and the pipe
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Curators who work with Indigenous communities find themselves in between contradictory expectations and needs from their museum colleagues ...
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Loss of a mentor and great man
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I’m very sad to announce the passing of Kainai ceremonial leader and elder, Frank Weasel Head, who has been a strong mentor to the Pitt Riv...
Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Captain Franklin’s moccasin: many mysteries solved!
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Captain Franklin’s moccasin: many mysteries solved! So, back to the mysteries of the moccasin …There are far more clues with this objec...
Thursday, 26 February 2015
The (new) Great Box, home on Haida Gwaii!
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We have just uploaded a wonderful video showing the new Great Box teaching, with Gwaai and Jaalen, in the high school at Masset on Haida Gw...
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
Franklin's moccasin, part 2: family ties
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Moccasin from Franklin, PRM 1997.19.27 What a story! This is a mystery, a romance, and a peek into early 19thC English intellectual fam...
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