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Giving Back: Community Projects and Restitution in the Pacific Northwest

Giving Back: Community Projects and Restitution...

Donald Ellis, a renowned Canadian art dealer who founded his gallery of historical Native American art almost five decades ago, has long been confronting some of the issues that plague...

Giving Back: Community Projects and Restitution...

Donald Ellis, a renowned Canadian art dealer who founded his gallery of historical Native American art almost five decades ago, has long been confronting some of the issues that plague...

Close-up of a celestial dancer (devata), stone medieval sculpture

Ceci n’est pas une sculpture : exposer les figu...

The collection of medieval Indian works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York includes a captivating figure of a celestial dancer, or devata, who seems entirely freed from...

Ceci n’est pas une sculpture : exposer les figu...

The collection of medieval Indian works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York includes a captivating figure of a celestial dancer, or devata, who seems entirely freed from...

Pichinku: Naturally Dyed Andean Yarn

Pichinku: Naturally Dyed Andean Yarn

Nestled in the heart of the Urubamba Valley, or Sacred Valley, outside of he city of Cusco (Peru), Pichinku isa grass roots project that rings together ancestral knowledge , specialied...

Pichinku: Naturally Dyed Andean Yarn

Nestled in the heart of the Urubamba Valley, or Sacred Valley, outside of he city of Cusco (Peru), Pichinku isa grass roots project that rings together ancestral knowledge , specialied...

Corpus: Kukuli Velarde

Corpus: Kukuli Velarde

Corpus: the body. In the art of Kukuli Velarde, clay becomes flesh.Corpus: a collection of works. Here, a coherent ensemble of fifteen clay effigies that took over a decade to...

Corpus: Kukuli Velarde

Corpus: the body. In the art of Kukuli Velarde, clay becomes flesh.Corpus: a collection of works. Here, a coherent ensemble of fifteen clay effigies that took over a decade to...

Portrait of an Indonesian woman in a traditional garment, smiling

Un café avec : Sinta Ridwan

We met Sinta Ridwan in a Zoom meeting, between Paris and Jakarta. Sinta Ridwan is an Indonesian philologist and archaeologist who works for the recognition of the Hindu and Buddhist...

Un café avec : Sinta Ridwan

We met Sinta Ridwan in a Zoom meeting, between Paris and Jakarta. Sinta Ridwan is an Indonesian philologist and archaeologist who works for the recognition of the Hindu and Buddhist...

Kamak coin composed of a long string with braids of bat hair, shells, and pendants

Monnaies kanak

Coins are composite objects exchanged within the Kanak world, the indigenous populations of New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean. The labeling of these objects as coins derives from the European...

Monnaies kanak

Coins are composite objects exchanged within the Kanak world, the indigenous populations of New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean. The labeling of these objects as coins derives from the European...