By Cara Krmpotich, Laura Peers
In September 2009, twenty-one participants of the Haida country went to the Pitt Rivers Museum and the British Museum to paintings with a number of hundred historical past treasures. that includes contributions from all of the individuals and a wealthy number of illustrations, This Is Our Life information the striking tale of the Haida undertaking - from the making plans to the stumble upon and during the years that undefined. a desirable examine the that means at the back of items, the price of repatriation, and the influence of old trajectories like colonialism, this can be additionally a narrative of the certainty that grew among the Haida humans and museum employees.
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Like us, they’ve inherited the right and the responsibility to do things differently – to make things right. ” While not always apparent in museums’ front-of-house displays, things have been done “differently” for some time now. The Haida Project is innovative but also the logical outcome of a long process of change for UK museums and for museums around the world, which have engaged in projects with source communities and museum collections for decades. Since the mid-twentieth century, ethnographic collections have become increasingly interesting to anthropologists and scholars more broadly, museum publics and source communities alike.
Whether we are bringing home an ancestor’s remains, or repatriating knowledge, the healing is visible on the faces of our community members. Yahgudang. gang constantly forces me to both embrace my anger around our history and current existence and also make sense of it so that I can turn it into positive energy that might make a difference. gang we know that museums are not our enemies. The people working in these institutions today (for the most part) did not steal our relatives’ bones or hide our cultural heritage away.
The totem poles, along with other artifacts from cultures around the globe, are housed in British museums because of the complex interactions between British people and peoples around the world over the past several centuries. These collections serve as a kind of The Paths Bringing Us Together | 9 archive: they show where British people have been and what they have thought about the peoples they found there. Most ethnographic collections in Britain were acquired within the general histories of exploration, economic expansion, and the establishment of colonial relations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Cole 1995; for an extended history of the Haida collection at the British Museum, see King 1999).