![]() ![]() The Oji-Cree lived and practiced Ahnishinahbayeshshikaywin, which outsiders call animism. She is a member of The Explorers Club Class of 2022 (). ![]() Alicia Colson is an archaeologist and ethnohistorian working with computing scientists, and collaborates with indigenous peoples, NGOs and governments in Canada, UK, US, and Antigua to understand our pasts. “ Reciprocal Visions: Native North Americans and the arts of Cultural and Colonial Encounter – a new analysis”ĭr. A former Associate Professor (Reader) of Art History at the University of Plymouth. What does this mean for the world’s largest rainforest?ĭr Stephanie Pratt, Dakota and Anglo-American art historian and first cultural ambassador for the Crow Creek Dakota Tribal Council at Fort Thompson, South Dakota. “ Climate emergency from an Amazonian perspective” ‘Earth’s climate is already changing. Vinicius Dino, anthropologist and PhD candidate in art history, University of East Anglia. Organised jointly with the Royal Geographical Society. Jago Cooper, former curator of the Americas at the British Museum, and now the Director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, presented his talk entitled “ Rethinking World Museums in Times of Global Change”.Īncestral Voices: Past and Present seminar 20 October 2022Īn evening of global and cultural exploration and discovery as three experts discuss their unique perspectives on Indigenous people’s experiences. RAMM organised two events which enabled visitors to choose between physically attending or watching the speakers remotely. Given how Covid-19 changed how museum visitors accessed heritage. ![]() Geologist and award-winning explorer Jevan Berrangé.Reverend Humphrey Senhouse Pinder, St.Edward Burton Penny who traded in jalap from Mexico.This activity has produced a wealth of knowledge which is being made accessible to visitors. One such person was Edgar Dewdney.ĭonor research has resulted in a revision of their biographies, an exploration of their wealth in the 19th century, and the opportunities they had for travelling to, and working and living in the Americas. The search for answers is integral to Ancestral Voices.įew donor biographies associated with the Americas collections were presented in RAMM’s historic displays. The deerskin coat and gaiters from Mexico, the African-made arch lute from Colombia, and the items Richard Sainthill acquired in Chile soon after a major tsunami occurred, are such examples. Steeped in mystery, investigation into some unusual artefacts lead to very interesting questions. It’s essential that museums do all they can to establish how their donors obtained the very treasures they later presented to preserve these items, and their legacy. This important museum process leads to pertinent questions being asked, such as the means of artefact acquisition. Where funding and connections exist, fresh interpretation incorporates indigenous knowledge and voices, along with high quality scholarship. Objects are essentially about people, and it is through the object that RAMM wants to tell people’s stories through object journeys with the help and expertise of others.Īncestral Voices re-examines the current interpretation of artefacts and has updated this information. Some objects have agency, are ceremonial and holy in nature, and are considered special, even unique. Generally, artefacts are crafted by artisans for people to use. Its research work will continue where possible. The project’s conclusion in March 2023 resulted in the redisplay of three permanent display cases in the Americas gallery. The new Ancestral Voices involved multiple partner scholarship, conservation, documentation, the reinterpretation of artefacts, the acquisition of related contemporary art, and a public programme. This new proposal adopted a familiar back-to-basics approach, aligning it with the successful work done previously on Discovering Worlds with the Pacific and African collections. However, ACE agreed to support a second proposal, which began late 2021. Sadly, that same year brought Covid-19, and significant priorities put an end to these activities, but engagement work will be viewed again in the future. Based on the museum’s historic Americas collections, the proposed work was ambitiously focused on engagement work with indigenous communities, and culminating in the commission of a new artwork, and a temporary exhibition. In 2019, a grant from the Art Council England (ACE) Designation Development Fund was awarded to RAMM for the Ancestral Voices project. ![]()
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