Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa : : Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation / / Alison Brown, Laura Peers.

• VerfasserIn: Brown, Alison,; Peers, Laura,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)

In 1925, Beatrice Blackwood of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum took thirty-three photographs of Kainai people on the Blood Indian Reserve in Alberta as part of an anthropological project. In 2001, staff from the museum took copies of these photographs back to the Kainai and worked with community members to try to gain a better understanding of Kainai perspectives on the images. 'Pictures Bring Us Messages' is about that process, about why museum professionals and archivists must work with such communities, and about some of the considerations that need to be addressed when doing so.Exploring the meanings that historic photographs have for source communities, Alison K. Brown, Laura Peers, and members of the Kainai Nation develop and demonstrate culturally appropriate ways of researching, curating, archiving, accessing, and otherwise using museum and archival collections. They describe the process of relationship building that has been crucial to the research and the current and future benefits of this new relationship. While based in Canada, the dynamics of the 'Pictures Bring Us Messages' project is relevant to indigenous peoples and heritage institutions around the world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Project Participants -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. The Photographs and Their Contexts: Kainai History -- CHAPTER TWO. Anthropological Contexts -- CHAPTER THREE. Working Together -- CHAPTER FOUR. Reading the Photographs -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Past in the Present: Community Conclusions -- CHAPTER SIX. Moving Forward: Institutional Implications -- Conclusions -- Statement of Consent -- Appendix One: Itinerary of Beatrice Blackwood's North American Fieldwork, 1924-7 -- Appendix Two: Beatrice Blackwood's Notations on Her Photographs with Kainai Identifications -- Appendix Three: Protocol Agreement -- Appendix Four: Kainai Reflections on Beatrice Blackwood's Diary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index