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Inside the Collections: Pacific Northwest Coast Peoples

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3:32 that motif is not whatever the hell that man said, it’s raven and a representation of the shaman (sometimes there’s a frog) with their tongue being taken, representing the transfer of knowledge from one to the other
Comment from : @moist_onions

They're not killer whales on the hats; they're grey whales
Comment from : @Steviepinhead

The AMNH makes a lot of awesome videos and virtual tours about its traveling exhibits, fossil halls and dinosaur and other prehistoric animal fossils, human origins and evolution, diorama halls and animal taxidermies and specimens and the space exhibits and astronomy, as well as paleontology, marine biology, mammalogy, paleoanthropology, ornithology and astronomy that I have watched and enjoyed, but they need to make more videos and virtual tours focusing on its human cultural halls and anthropology, but this is primarily because the AMNH is a natural history museum only tackling information on animals and nature and Earth’s history and paleontology, marine biology and astronomy and human evolution, the Met Museum is meanwhile an art museum that tackles more information on human history, art and ancient cultures But I love both subjects overall
Comment from : @IndriidaeNT

He said hunting killer whales 🐋 wrong
Comment from : @JAMESJACKSON-sj2qm

Franz Boas Failure of the corrupted course of Criminal Cultural Anthropology at the State University of Milan
Comment from : @Mark-ej4uf

Is there no pottery in the collection? I see basketry and woodworking, but isn't pottery common to all people?
Comment from : @Mariallas

This video just supports the colonialist invaders idea that the indigenous are ancient history and got wiped out a long time ago Some of those articles belonged to someone's great grandma, That's all, not that long ago, and were most likely stolen off her back, not some ancient civilization from the distant past They tried to wipe out the original people but they are still here and thriving despite the attempt by modern governments to make them relics of the past Don't believe this bs history
Comment from : @marmarlittlechick

It’s repulsive to me a white woman to see this man touching artifacts that belong to the families of those who were stolen from This man will never understand
Comment from : @sharonbrown6917

Give it back!
Comment from : @mobilemollusc615

Why haven't these been repatriated
Comment from : @jmousevancouver6471

To see this art in a museum is one thing, but to see it as it was meant to be seen; danced in the fire light of the big house is magical The masks come alive!
Comment from : @karenpelletier5707

2:28 this is not true The people who made the chilkat blanket first was my nation! (Tsimshian) 2:34 This is also not true! It was used for anyone, if they wanted to wear it In today’s world, it’s not something you wear everyday You only wear it in events or ceremonies
Comment from : @Xander-m1w

i had a couple eyebrow raisers watching this too, and im still learning about my own culture (dena'ina, family from anchorage, alaska) glad i wasnt the only one who noticed, seems like from other comments they made some pretty rough errors brthe whole time i was wondering - is there gonna be an indigenous person explaining the significance and history like ive seen in other videos?brnope just a white guy :/bras an artist and an inuk theres a lot of careful balancing between preservation and repatriation is it better kept safe in a collection for so long, being guarded from ignorant missionaries at the cost of losing vital historical and cultural context? brbest case scenario is family heirlooms with oral history but how much of that can you find after colonialism intentionally worked to decimate everything about our culture?brjust some thoughts
Comment from : @chicorysweet5472

the art is so pretty! (:
Comment from : @lilithwinebrenner1616

It is time to return these items
Comment from : @curtisbolen2693

All this seems to be housed in storage shelves How much is on display?
Comment from : @harperwelch5147

It should be with descendants not with white man in white man building
Comment from : @iotaalgebra1195

Don't know how they were initially taken probably forcefully This is not art it is culture somehow destroyedlike cutting trees n dieing for oxygen looking at picture of tree
Comment from : @iotaalgebra1195

give them back they are stolen
Comment from : @jax5850

It's so sad the time given to these most beautiful art of first nations is too brief and dose not give credit to this form of art
Comment from : @kamauwikeepawikk9520

people talking about Cancel CulturebrLOL what ever
Comment from : @floydwilliams8595

Stolen
Comment from : @JacobFirlotte

I KNEW THOSE STUFF
Comment from : @dalelabdala3493

I met Northwest Coast Culture thanks to the novel I Heard The Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
Comment from : @CitizenofTatooine

Give them back
Comment from : @garymoi180

Awesome collection, stollen but safe
Comment from : @toddvandewaal8295

I love native art! Never thought about it till now, but Raven is the equivalent of Prometheus in Greek myth, who also brought fire/light to man
Comment from : @athenassigil5820

As ugly as it is to see the items not returned today, Mr Boaz had good reason to collect some of these items Missionaries were working with many of these communities and were known to destroy items that had religious significance, so in a way he was trying to preserve them He also was one of the few, white voices at the time arguing for rights for aboriginal people He was far from perfect of course but at the time he was considered an eccentric and wasn't taken seriously
Comment from : @jaythompson5102

These artifacts should be return to the nations they were stolen from brThey don't belong there
Comment from : @mslonnie9529

The acquisition of these national heritage items involved theft, deception, collusion and other misappropriations They should be returned No shaman's rattle or sacred object should ever be expatriated Yet not a word from the Brit running things at an American museum - a picture of neo-colonization
Comment from : @sasachiminesh1204