Latest posts tagged with #ColonialCollecting on Bluesky
»The Royal Artillery is facing criticism after it emerged they are refusing public access to an ›extraordinary object‹ looted by the British army in the 19th century from the Asante people in modern-day Ghana.« #Repatriation #ColonialCollecting
»There was an appetite to see Indigenous people in their ›natural state‹ and, as popular demand surged, the staging of human zoos grew into more exaggerated displays.« buff.ly/ZCaERfd #FirstNations #ColonialCollecting #AUS
#ColonialCollecting: »More than one million plants are in the new platform including more than 800 specimens collected by botanists Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific in 1770.«
»A pair of severed bronze feet« and a lie about extinction ... #colonialism #colonialcollecting #repatriation
