Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces

• 1. Verfasser: Laura Peers (auth)
• Weitere Verfasser: Alison K. Brown (auth)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: Athabasca University Press 2016
• Schlagworte: colonialism; Truth and Reconciliation; aboriginal peoples; museum studies; first nations; museology; heritage items; sacred objects
• Online-Zugang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of...