Reconnections with historic Blackfoot shirts
Principal Investigator / Director: Laura Peers
Oxford participants: Daniel Burt; Haas Ezzet
Other Participants: not specified
Project Webpage: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/blackfootshirts/
Start Date: 2009
End Date: 2010
Funder: not specified
Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen with Blackfoot communities in Canada and the USA.
Project Description:
In spring 2010, the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford lent five Blackfoot shirts (collected in 1841) for exhibition at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary and the Galt Museum, Lethbridge. These important items of Blackfoot heritage bring together cultural, historical, and artistic knowledge. This site is intended to support teachers and students who wish to learn from the shirts.