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Strands which refuse to be braided: hair samples from Beatrice Blackwood’s Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum
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This article concerns hair samples collected in 1925 in the Ojibwe community of Red Lake, Minnesota, USA, now in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. It outlines the process of consultation with community members and of the discovery of the historical context and meanings surrounding the hair. These meanings are emotive because of the conjuncture of Ojibwe beliefs about hair with the history of the cutting and analysis of hair by Whites as part of attempts to control Ojibwe peop...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Author's original, pdf, 102.3KB)
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- 10.1177/1359183503008001763
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- Sage Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Material Culture Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 75-96
- Publication date:
- 2003-03-01
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1460-3586
- ISSN:
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1359-1835
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- English
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- ora:3046
- Deposit date:
- 2009-11-10
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- Sage Publications
- Copyright date:
- 2003
- Notes:
- Citation: Peers, L. (2003). 'Strands which refuse to be braided: hair samples from Beatrice Blackwood’s Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum', Journal of Material Culture, 8(1), 75-96. [Available at http://mcu.sagepub.com/].
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