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2012
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Material destinies: jewelry, authenticity and craft in the American Southwest
This article considers the representation and interpretation of Native American jewelry of the American Southwest. It gives a broad history of silversmithing and lapidary traditions, in order to contextualize the tangible and intangible values bestowed on silver and stone as pure, worked, and combined materials. It suggests the benefit of...Lidchi, Henrietta
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2011
Journal article
Review of: Touch in museums book review
Lidchi, Henrietta
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2017
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Recrafting traditions and materializing memories: a conversation with Keri Ataumbi
This Statement of Practice starts with a description of the inlay piece recently acquired by National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. The ring—entitled Zemguani—invokes a Kiowa mythical being. Ataumbi discusses its place within her artistic trajectory and studio practice, especially as regards the use of Native and non-Native materials in jewelry. She...Lidchi, Henrietta ; Ataumbi, Keri
trading, materials, jewelry, Native America, sovereignty, memorial, and narrative
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2006
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'Culture and constraints: further thoughts on ethnography and exhibiting’
This article explores the context of ethnographic exhibiting, and provides a brief overview of the main impact of critical theory on the interpretation of ethnographic displays. Using a model which separates the poetics from the politics of representation, it explores how curators actively reflect these debates through analysis of an...Lidchi, Henrietta
Poetics, Audiences, Exhibitions, Politics, Ethnography, and Irony
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2014
Journal article
Black Watch alliances in Seven Years War revealed
This summer a group of historians, anthropologists and First Nation community members assembled at the Woodlands Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario. They met to share knowledge and discuss research into the civilisations and arts of the Great Lakes region. Part of their discussion revolved around an object from the collections...Lidchi, Henrietta ; Allan, Stuart
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2015
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Crafting music through technology and design: a conversation with Victor Gama
This Statement of Practice unfolds in three parts and reflects an ongoing conversation between curator Henrietta Lidchi at National Museums Scotland (NMS) and the Portuguese-Angolan musical instrument artist Victor Gama about the nature and form of Gama's work. The Statement explores the genesis of a commissioning project which was developed...Lidchi, Henrietta ; Gama, Victor
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, DIGITAL FABRICATION, COMMISSIONING, SOUND, and MUSEUM DISPLAY
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2014
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Mild hobbies and their legacies
This paper looks at the nature and trajectory of Dr John Rae collection in the institutional context of the National Museums Scotland. In a letter of 1878, Rae noted that his hobby was ‘in a very mild way, natural history’. As Jonathan King notes, Rae’s collection is diverse reflecting changing...Lidchi, Henrietta