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A HISTORY OF INUIT ART in the Canadian ArcticFor TASH Members and their Guests ONLY.
From religion to the environment, and colonial encounters to the power of the western art market, this talk explores the many interactions – expected and unexpected – that have shaped the history of Inuit Art in Canada. Drawing on collections in the UK and Canada, this talk will introduce you to the rich material heritage of the Canadian Arctic.
Dr Henrietta Hammant is a museum anthropologist with a love of the polar regions. She has worked in a variety of museums in the UK and Canada, including the Itsanitaq Museum in Churchill, Manitoba (‘The Polar Bear Capital of the World’) and the Polar Museum in Cambridge. She has recently completed a PhD in the anthropology of heritage, studying the impact of museum practice on the interpretation of Antarctic explorers of the ‘Heroic Age’.
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The Clubhouse, HRFC, Dry Leas, RG9 2JA Henley on Thames, United Kingdom, Henley-on-thames, United Kingdom
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