9780774827263 - First Nations, Museums, Narrations: Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies von Brown, Alison K. (1 Ergebnisse)

[978-0-7748-2726-3] 2014. (Mass market paperback) Very good. xx, 305pp. 8vo. Details the history of the Franklin Motor Expedition (1929), a mission the purpose of which was to collect First Nations artifacts and Prairie heritage items. The trek resulted in the single largest amassed collection of its kind and remains housed in a British museum. Also examined is a history of museums on the prairies and of First Nation artifacts in international museums, of particular interest because this happened at a time when Indigenous Peoples were subjected to forced assimilation. The corners are lightly bumped; else is clean, tight, bright.