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TODAYA Virtual Opening for our Makers and Materials of the Americas Exhibition! Tuesday, April 6, 2021 from 5:307:00 p.m. via Zoom. _______________ The Longyear Museum of Anthropology (LMA) team invites you to celebrate the virtual opening of our latest exhibition: Makers and Materials of the Americas. Through a glimpse at 40 works from the Longyear Museum of Anthropology collections from Canada to Peru, this student-curated exhibition aims to center individual makers t...hrough close attention to the materials used and the makers’ stylistic choices. The show also features 17 loaned works celebrating the creativity and craftsmanship of contemporary Haudenosaunee artists and makers. Join student curators and LMA staff as they share their projects and offer a glimpse into what it was like to create an exhibit during a pandemic. This event is open to all through this registration link: https://colgate.zoom.us//tJUrfu-hqDgtHdFwcjw-bJbeDetTdG37J. _______________ Following the event, this exhibition will be open by appointment to the on-campus community for the spring semester and for regular viewing hours in the fall. _______________ For more information, visit the Longyear Museum of Anthropology website: https://www.colgate.edu//muse/longyear-museum-anthropology _______________ Piece featured: "Clay Woman," Tamalyn Tammy Tarbell (1950-2021), 2006. When we add pieces to our collections, many of the artists become friends of the museum. We also recognize that during this time of great loss, that a few of these artists are no longer with us. We send out our condolences and our respect to the families of the artists we’ve lost since our contemporary collecting began. When an Indigenous knowledge-holder or artist passes, they take with them traditions that have been handed down over millennia. We at the Longyear Museum of Anthropology will continue to hold space for these artists and their stories that they convey.

Join Ganondagan State Historic Site today at 12 p.m. via Facebook Live for their final Haudenosaunee Women Wednesday's! Each Wednesday in March they will be discussing Haudenosaunee Women in history and the impact their work had, and continues to have, on their communities. #WomensHistoryMonth #HaudenosauneeWomeninHistory

Week 11 of our ‘Piece of the Week’ dialogue: spring edition is here! Today we present a wooden Yoruba door panel from Nigeria dating between the late 1800s through the mid 1900s. _______________ The Yoruba people are an ethnic group living in western Africamainly Nigeria, Benin and Togoand are one of the largest groups in Africa. Yoruba artworks, including doors that are embellished with carvings like this one, are often commissioned by the royal courts. Such doors are usua...lly made by well-known carvers and are installed in prestigious placeslike shrines and palacesthat are frequented by people of special distinction. The designs are usually carved in relief (standing out from the surface) and sometimes suggest historical moments, but typically do not invoke a narrative. Another purpose of these carved doors is to enhance the status of shrines that are dedicated to Yoruba deities/spirits, known as Orishas. _______________ Dimension drop: This door is 47 inches tall and 26 inches wide. _______________ Post attribution: Daniella Onofre ’23 _______________ #lmacolgate #longyearmuseumofanthropology #museumfromhome #teachingmuseum #teachingcollection #colgateuniversity #museumstudies #anthropologymuseum #anthropology #nysmuseums #centralnewyork #yorubadoor #yorubaart

Join Ganondagan State Historic Site today at 12 p.m. via Facebook Live for Haudenosaunee Women Wednesday's! Each Wednesday in March they will be discussing Haudenosaunee Women in history and the impact their work had, and continues to have, on their communities. #WomensHistoryMonth #HaudenosauneeWomeninHistory

Welcome to week 10 of our ‘Piece of the Week’ dialogue: spring edition! Today we highlight a wooden Batho (food dish) created by an Emberá-Wounaan maker from Noanamá, Chocó, Colombia a glimpse into our upcoming exhibition, Makers and Materials of the Americas: Re-Centering the Individual in Anthropology Collections. _______________ Today, Emberá and Wounaan speakers inhabit regions of modern-day Panama and Colombia. Living in round dwellings along rivers, the households ar...e closely organized, and the oldest male is respected as the household's leader. The Emberá-Wounaan are also professional swidden (area of cleared land) horticulturalists and practice the slash-and-burn pattern of life. They collect rich natural resources from tropical rainforests including plantains, bananas, maize, and sugarcane. _______________ This food dish, known as Batho among the Emberá-Wounaan, is a light wooden bowl with round holders on both sides. With smooth curves and a perfectly flat base, this bowl shows the advanced curving and polishing technique of the Emberá-Wounaan in their domestic production. Variegated scratches at the inner bottom of the food dish are possible traces of seed grinding and food mashing, indicating the frequent usage of food preparation in daily practice. _______________ Dimension drop: This food dish is 31/8 inches tall, 161/8 inches long, and 75/8 inches wide. _______________ Post attribution: Ray Zhang ’24 _______________ #lmacolgate #longyearmuseumofanthropology #museumfromhome #teachingmuseum #teachingcollection #colgateuniversity #museumstudies #anthropologymuseum #anthropology #nysmuseums #centralnewyork #indigenous #fooddish #emberawounaan See more

"On Sunday and Monday, families across Mexico, the U.S. and elsewhere are observing Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday that celebrates the lives and honors the memory of those who've passed on. __________________________ The pandemic has had an outsize impact on Latinx people in the United States, who are hospitalized from COVID-19 at four times the rate of white Americans."

Welcome to week 7 of our ‘Object of the Week’ dialogue: fall edition! This week we are highlighting a cornhusk doll with a spear and shield made by HaudenosauneeSix Nations of the Grand River, Canadaartist, Paula A. Longboat. According to the Legend of the No Face Doll, Creator modeled the doll after Corn Spirit. Corn is a sustainer of life and is the eldest of the Three Sisters- Corn, Beans, and Squash. The doll traveled to each village to play with the children,... but soon grew conceited because people kept telling her how beautiful she was. She did not realize they were talking about how she acted and treated the children, not her beauty. The Great Spirit warned her that if she continued to be vain, she would soon be punished. The beautiful doll did not listen. The Great Spirit punished her by taking away her face. Today, Haudenosaunee cornhusk dolls are made with no faces, reminding people that no person is better than another. While this story is associated with a female cornhusk doll made in Corn Spirit’s image, male cornhusk dolls are also made, usually for children, in Haudenosaunee culture. Thank you to the Oneida Indian Nation for your article written on The Legend of the No Face Doll, and Jessica Farmer Cultural Programs Coordinator, Shako:wi Cultural Center for answering clarifying questions for us. Material Moment: This doll is made of various materials (some locally sourced) including glass beads, feathers, fiber, leather/hide, wood, yarn, and corn husk. #lmacolgate #longyearmuseumofanthropology #teachingmuseum #teachingcollection #upstateny #upstatenewyork #colgateuniversity #nysmuseums #museumfromhome #haudenosaunee #sixnations

Hello all! Welcome to week 6 of our ‘Object of the Week’ dialogue: fall edition! This week we are featuring Loreene Henry’s soapstone sculpture, Mother and Child. ________________ Loreene Henry is a Haudenosaunee sculptor who started carving in 1978. Most of her work is centered around a theme of family life and the role of women for the Cayugas of the Grand River Reservation at Six Nations, Canada. This Henry sculpture depicts a seated woman wearing a mantle (loose sleeveles...s cloak or shawl), and holding a child in a cradleboard across her lap. This sculpture may represent a mother’s role as a caregiver, nurturer, and protector. ________________ Material Moment: This sculpture is made of stone and steatite (soapstone). Loreene Henry, Mother and Child, 2007. _______________ #lmacolgate #longyearmuseumofanthropology #museumfromhome #teachingmuseum #teachingcollection #colgateuniversity #nysmuseums #museumstudies #anthropologymuseum #anthropology #centralnewyork #Haudenosaunee #LoreeneHenry

Join the Iroquois Indian Museum for this Virtual Art Opening live at 2pm! ABOUT IDENTITY/IDENTIFY This thought-provoking exhibit presents artistic responses from across Iroquois country that speak to who is considered Haudenosaunee and what constitutes membership. Identity/Identify explores how these definitions and designations determine access to tribal and federal resources, rights, residency options, and other components of cultural and community participation.... Artwork created specifically for the exhibit presents the political and polarizing issues surrounding blood quantum standards, the position and challenges of mixed-race individuals, those whose connections to heritage are through their father's (rather than mother’s) lines, and those who grew up off-reservation. The exhibit features video, sculpture, beadwork, and photography by Peter Jones, Hayden Haynes, and Michael Jones from Seneca territory; Margaret Jacobs and Natasha Smoke-Santiago from Akwesasne; Robert D’Alimonte from Tuscarora; Karen Ann Hoffman from Oneida, Wisconsin; Danielle Soames from Kahnawake; Andrea Chrisjohn from Kingston, NY; Shelia Escobar and Lance Hodahkwen from Syracuse; Rosy Simas from Minneapolis; Ric Glazer Danay from California; Melanie Printup Hope from Toronto, and Erin Antonak from Mississippi.

Welcome to week 5 of our ‘Object of the Week’ dialogue: fall edition! This week we feature a representation of a-Tshol (shrine figure, creator god) from the Baga of Guinea (country in West Africa). _______________ A-Tshol is the creator god of the Baga and is often represented by the figure of a head with an elongated, bird-like beak. At their initiation into adulthood, youth are introduced to a-Tshol. While the name given to this shrine figure changes based on who in the B...aga culture is interacting with it, the meaning of the name always refers to medicine and healing. ________________ Material Moment: This a-Tshol representation is made of cloth, copper, fiber, iron, and wood. ________________ #lmacolgate #longyearmuseumofanthropology #museumfromhome #teachingmuseum #teachingcollection #colgateuniversity #nysmuseums #museumstudies #anthropologymuseum #anthropology #centralnewyork #westafrica See more

The Shako:wi Cultural Center is the Oneida Indian Nation’s public museum for all things Oneida heritage and culture. Sitting on the Nation’s homelands, the hand...crafted white pine building built in 1993 was named in honor of Oneida Richard Chrisjohn (Wolf Clan) Shako:wi means he gives in Oneida and the museum continues to give today. Read more about the Shako:wi Cultural Center: https://www.oneidaindiannation.com/shakowi-cultural-center/

Are you interested in learning about how to support and engage with indigenous artists? Swipe to learn more and to see how you can show your support! _________________ Indigenous communities have suffered from COVID-19 at disproportionate rates. Because of COVID-19, artists and artisanswhose living is earned from their artcan no longer sell their work at physical marketplaces. Many of them have now moved their marketplaces online! Please visit and share these accounts to... help! _________________ Niio Perkins Designs OXDX Clothing Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto Beyond Buckskin SWAIA - Santa Fe Indian Market See more

Coffee with a Curator! _______________________ Friday, October 9, 2-3 p.m. _______________________ Coffee with a Curator is an informal opportunity for students to chat with museum leaders on campus about a wide variety of topics. What types of careers exist in the museum sector? What does a curator do? How did the stuff in Colgate’s museum collections get there? What goes into putting together a museum exhibition? How can I get involved? Ask us anything! ... This week featuring Rebecca Mendelsohn, Curator of the Longyear Museum of Anthropology. ______________________ Please register for this event: https://calendar.colgate.edu/ev/coffee_with_a_curator_3516 See more

Happy Tuesday and week 4 of our Object of the Week dialogue: fall edition! Here we highlight Peter B. Jones’s sculptureTurtle Island/Sky Woman. Jones is a Haudenosaunee sculptor and potter, who is a member of the Onondaga Nation Beaver Clan, and is currently creating in his workshop and studio in the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation of Indians in western New York State. Jones incorporates the traditional element of storytelling into his pieces to tackle th...e difficult history of urbanization, media exploitation, and local acculturation (assimilation to a different culture) of Native communities. The sculpture is stoneware, meaning the clay has been fired at a very high temperaturemaking it highly durable and stone-like. Jones’s clay turtle carries the Statue of Liberty on its back, a plane crashing into it; a television showing Sky Woman falling and birds swooping to her assistance; people emerging from the earth and sitting with knees drawn up; a nuclear danger sign, an alcohol bottle, and more. In an interview for The Summer Local, Jones states, Everyone wants to be comfortable. They don’t want to be reminded of the genocide and internments that went on in our history. We’re denying our history by not wanting to remember. Peter B. Jones, Turtle Island/Sky Woman, 2004. _______________ #lmacolgate #longyearmuseumofanthropology #museumfromhome #teachingmuseum #teachingcollection #colgateuniversity #nysmuseums #museumstudies #anthropologymuseum #anthropology #centralnewyork #sculpture #firstnationsart

Hello all! Welcome to week 3 of our Object of the Week Dialogue! Today we are featuring an awayu (carrying cloth) from the Aymara culture in modern day Bolivia. ___________________ This awayu was woven from the mid to late 20th Century with handspun dyed sheep wool and natural brown llama wool. The weaving methods used to create awayus have been the same for centuries. Wool is removed, cleaned, spun, twisted into yarn, and then woven into intricate, meaningful designs. This ...awayu has eight bands of design work including birds, viscachas (South American rodent in the chinchilla family), and geometric designs. Awayus, held together by a Tupu (large pin), can be used to carry an infant or personal possessions. ________________ #lmacolgate #longyearmuseumofanthropology #museumfromhome #teachingmuseum #teachingcollection #colgateuniversity #nysmuseums #museumstudies #anthropologymuseum #anthropology #centralnewyork #virtualtour #textiletuesday See more

What’s the at the ? Here’s a sneak peek at the behind-the-scenes of a very exciting project going on in the museum! A of our gallery space is in the works, thanks to the expertise of two ITS Learning and Applied Innovation team members , Technical Director & Designer of Ho Tung Visualization Lab and Planetarium, and , Instructional Designer of Maker Education. Joe and Kenny took 360 videos using a spheric...al, eight-lensed Insta360 Pro 2 camera and 360 photographs of the space using a Kandoo QooCam 8K. The footage and images will be stitched together using the 3DVista program to create an . The tour will allow visitors to move about the museum from a computer, mobile device, and perhaps even a VR headset. #lmacolgate #longyearmuseumofanthropology #museumfromhome #teachingmuseum #teachingcollection #colgateuniversity #nysmuseums #museumstudies #anthropologymuseum #anthropology #centralnewyork #virtualtour See more

Welcome to week 2 of our dialogue: fall edition! Today we feature a pochoir monotype print by é. é is a Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg artist and educator, teaching as an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University and the Indigenous Studies program at Trent University. His research interests include traditional knowledge, traditional healing, and land-based healing. Brasc...oupé’s artwork often contains , in accordance with his belief that people can gain profound knowledge if they observe and learn from the natural world. , meaning stencil in French, is a technique in which stencils are cut and inked to form prints known for their . The technique was popularized in the late 19thearly 20th century, but stenciling can be dated back to the prehistoric art of cave handprints in which the body is used as a stencil. Simon Brascoupé, , 1999. #lmacolgate #longyearmuseumofanthropology #museumfromhome #teachingmuseum #teachingcollection #colgateuniversity #nysmuseums #museumstudies #anthropologymuseum #anthropology #centralnewyork #pochoir #firstnationsart #firstnationscanada

Join staff members from Colgate’s University Museums, and invited speakers, for a virtual conversation on "Looting and Museums". Everyone is welcome to attend. You may drop in whenever you are able and leave whenever you need. ____________________ , Co-Director of University Museums, and Curator of the Longyear Museum of Anthropology.