Visiting with the ancestors : : Blackfoot shirts in museum spaces / / Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown.

"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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Place / Publishing House:Edmonton, Alberta : : AU Press,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2016
2015
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Campus Alberta Collection
Physical Description:1 online resource (231 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Blackfoot Sacred Protocol
  • Introduction
  • One. Gifts from the Sun
  • Two. Introducing the Blackfoot Nations
  • Three. The Blackfoot and the Fur Trade
  • Four. Blackfoot Clothing
  • Five. Making Relations in the Past
  • Six. Making Relations in the Present
  • Seven. Planning the Project and Raising the Funds
  • Eight. Visiting the Shirts
  • Nine. Community Effects
  • Ten. Why Were the Shirts Not Repatriated?
  • Acknowledgments
  • References