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Visiting with the ancestors : Blackfoot shirts in museum spaces /

"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 office...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Peers, Laura (Author), Brown, Alison K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press, 2015.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Blackfoot sacred protocol
  • Gifts from the sun
  • Introducing the Blackfoot Nations
  • The Blackfoot and the fur trade
  • Making relations in the past
  • Making relations in the present
  • Planning the project and raising the funds
  • Visiting the shirts
  • COmmunity effects
  • Why were the shirts not repatriated?