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Propatriation

Possibilities for Art after NAGPRA

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ID2277960
AuthorsEmily Moore (0000-0002-6504-056X), E F Moore (0009-0007-2519-4998, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume33
Issue2
Pages125-136
Publication date2010-09-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMuseum Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0892-8339 • E-ISSN: 1548-1379
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1379.2010.01091.x
OpenAlexW1907671240
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited2

The repatriation of dozens of items of Tlingit clan property in 2001 restored at.óow that had been stolen from the Saanya Kwáan village of Cape Fox in 1899; it also launched a new relationship between Tlingit peoples and the museums that had returned their cultural patrimony. Following the repatriations, Cape Fox Corporation, the village corporation for the Saanya Kwáan, donated cedar logs to four museums that had returned totem poles or house posts to Alaska. In return, these four museums—the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, National Museum of the American Indian, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and Field Museum—commissioned Tlingit master carver Nathan Jackson, and later his son Stephen Jackson, to carve the cedar logs into new totem poles that would replace the repatriated poles. This paper proposes “propatriation” as a name for this growing practice of museum commissions to replace repatriated objects in the NAGPRA era. It also analyzes the impact of Nathan and Stephen Jackson's totem poles on the galleries of these U.S. museums, arguing that propatriation helps to “indigenize” the museum and to present Tlingit art according to Tlingit values

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Clan · Corporation · National museum · Political science · Repatriation · Sociology · Totem · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage

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Unique citing works8
Citations per year0,73
Citation span2015 - 2023 (9)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 8

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