Strands Which Refuse to be Braided
Hair Samples from Beatrice Blackwood’s Ojibwe Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2390824 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Peers (0000-0002-0332-8306, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-96 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359183503008001763 |
| OpenAlex | W2131164041 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article concerns hair samples collected in 1925 in the Ojibwe community of Red Lake, Minnesota, USA, now in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. It outlines the process of consultation with community members and of the discovery of the historical context and meanings surrounding the hair. These meanings are emotive because of the conjuncture of Ojibwe beliefs about hair with the history of the cutting and analysis of hair by Whites as part of attempts to control Ojibwe people in various ways. The article also explores the implications of current theory about material culture which sees artefacts as points of contact between peoples, and which focuses on tracing the movements and shifting meanings of artefacts as a way of understanding the relations between the peoples involved
Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Emotive · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |