Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces

• Main Author: Laura Peers (auth)
• Other Authors: Alison K. Brown (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2016
• Subjects: colonialism; Truth and Reconciliation; aboriginal peoples; museum studies; first nations; museology; heritage items; sacred objects
• Online Access: 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...