Blackfoot Culture and World Culture: Contexts for the Collection and Display of the Decorated Shirt of Issapoomahsika (Or CrowFoot) in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephanie Pratt
Journal of the History of Collections, vol. 18, no. 2, December 2006, pp. 237-247
Description
Uses the the sacred costume as an example of attitudes toward the acquisition and presentation of material culture; discusses the purchase of the clothing in relation to events taking place in Canada in the 1870s and traces changes in the museum's curatorial practices as demonstrated by its placement in the museum's collection.