Remapping A Place: How One Tribe's Art Reconnects Them To Their Land | Short Film Showcase
Jim Enote, a traditional Zuni farmer and director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center, is working with Zuni artists to create maps that bring an indigenous voice and perspective back to the land, countering Western notions of place and geography and challenging the arbitrary borders imposed on the Zuni world.
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Archeology suggests that the A:shiwi (Zuni) have been farming in the Zuni River valley of western New Mexico since at least A.D. 700. After their lands were colonized by the Spanish in the sixteenth century and later claimed by the United States, indigenous peoples of the Colorado Plateau were left in a deeply familiar territory of unfamiliar names. Google Maps shows Jim’s farm bordering Indian Service Route 2, but that’s not how he sees his land. “To assume that people would look at the earth only from a vantage point that is above and looking straight down doesn’t consider the humanity of living on the landscape.” The Zuni maps, says Jim, contain something very important: a different way of looking and knowing.
Zuni maps draw deeply on shared experiences of place. They depict petroglyph carvings, images from prayers and songs, colorful stacks of pottery, arroyos and mesas. They are an opportunity for the Zuni to reclaim a deep understanding of a shared cultural tradition, rooted in ancestral lands, told again in a familiar language. These maps are critical to constructing a bridge between the traditional and modern worlds, connecting the old ways with the new.
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Remapping A Place: How One Tribe's Art Reconnects Them To Their Land | Short Film Showcase
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A:shiwi A:wan Ulohnanne - The Zuni World
Jim Enote, Director A:Shiw A:Wan Museum and Heritage Center describes this new exhibition at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. See more information and schedule of events here:
21st Annual Zuni Festival of Arts & Culture
Journey to the Center Place is the theme for this annual celebration of Zuni art and culture. Some of the finest Native fine art in the Southwest, as well as philosophy, beliefs, and values of the A:shiwi people will be explored. New insightful talks, archival films, artists, dancers, and music will round out this year's festival presentations, produced in partnership with the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center (AAMHC) in Zuni, New Mexico.
Zuni Olla Maidens 5
As part of the museum's Native American Heritage Month Ceramics of the Southwest program, the Zuni Olla Maidens perform dances and songs that pay homage to their female ancestors, who labored to get water for daily sustenance by balancing large olla jars on their heads. The Zuni Olla Maidens are known for the Pottery Dance, in which they move in carefully choreographed steps with delicate painted pottery jars balanced on their heads. The group, led by Loretta Beyuka and Juanita Edaakie, are all related by blood and are citizens of the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico. This is the last of five presentations they gave that was live webcast and recorded at the Potomac Atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian on November 14, 2015.
Consultations: Providing Interpretation and Guidance for Collections
Consultations: Providing Interpretation and Guidance for Collections
Jim Enote, Director, A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center
Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, Director, Hopi Cultural Preservation Office
Gary Roybal, Native American Liaison, Bandelier National Monument
Cynthia Chavez Lamar (Moderator), IARC Director, School for Advanced Research
IARC Speaker Series, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Meem Auditorium
Thursday, April 25, 2013, 12:00--1:00 pm, Free
Native community representatives often work with museums to improve collections records and bring information back to the tribe. How do tribal representatives determine what information can be shared with the public and at what level? Where is the line between what should be kept internal versus made public—even in limited amounts—for the sake of preservation?
This lecture is part of the 2013 Speaker Series of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research. The series, titled Ethics, Aesthetics, and Preservation of the Arts, is geared toward individuals and institutions interested in collecting and working with cultural materials. Speakers will delve into the various legal and ethical issues surrounding art collecting and preservation, and offer some best-practice guidelines.
Jim Enote, Zuni farmer and interrupted artist, has explored to a large degree such varied subjects as cultural pattern languages, Zuni architecture as Fluxus art, Japanese art after 1945, and map art of indigenous peoples. Born in Zuni, New Mexico, Enote considers his career an odyssey of hitchhiking, watermelon picking, writing, and advocacy for indigenous peoples. Besides currently serving as director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center, he is a member of the board of trustees for the Grand Canyon Trust, a senior advisor for Mountain Cultures at the Mountain Institute, a New Mexico Community Luminaria, an E.F. Shumacher Society Fellow, and board member of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation. In 2010, Enote was awarded the Michael M. Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology. He is now camped out at his work-in-progress home in Zuni.
Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma is the director of the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, a position he has held for twenty-three years. In this capacity, he has conducted extensive consultations with museums nationwide. Particularly under the Native Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), he has provided tribal information to determine whether objects held by museums are subject to the act. Kuwanwisiwma has also collaborated with the professional community to conduct research on Hopi ethno-history, petroglyphs interpretation, landscapes, and archaeology. He is a former member of the board of trustees of the Museum of Northern Arizona and the Arizona Archaeology Commission and currently serves on the Arizona State Museum's Tribal Advisory Board.
Gary S. Roybal has served as the Museum Technician/Native American Liaison at Bandelier National Monument/NPS since 1990, where he most recently helped to oversee the renovation of Bandelier's visitor center. Previously, he served as assistant curator at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and repatriation specialist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian Cultural Resource Center. While representing his community of San Ildefonso Pueblo, he served as lieutenant governor, tribal council member, and head war captain/chief.
Sponsored by Anne Ray Charitable Trust and AV Systems, Inc.
Secret Worlds: The Anasazi | PBS America
SECRET WORLDS: ANASAZI - premieres 7.50pm, Wednesday 12 February on PBS America (Sky 534 & Virgin Media 243)
This fascinating documentary series follows archaeologist and anthropologist Michael Arbuthnot as he reveals the extraordinary secrets behind ancient civilisations.
The final episode, The Anasazi, takes Michael to the American south west, where he investigates what happened to the Anasazi people. Believed to originate around the first century AD, the Anasazi culture reached its peak between 1050 and 1125 across an area covering parts of the modern states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. Michael's journey starts in New Mexico, where he observes the cultural customs of the Zuni, one of the ancestral tribes of the Anasazi. From there he ventures on to the remote and mysterious Chaco Canyon. A major cultural centre for 300 years, this desolate valley boasts some remarkable buildings including the huge Pueblo Bonito, a great house covering almost two acres and containing over 600 rooms. Michael also visits the magnificent cliff houses of Mesa Verde, sees the revealing petroglyphs the Anasazi left behind, and explores a series of kivas, sacred meeting places where the natives gathered together. What caused this advanced civilisation to disappear remains unclear, but it seems likely that a combination of scarcity of food and raids by warlike neighbours led to the abandonment of the site and the migration of the people.
The Diorama Dilemma: Is There a Future for Anthropology in Museums?
Fall 2016 Barbara A. and Edward G. Hail Lecture
The Diorama Dilemma: Is There a Future for Anthropology in Museums?
Presented by Chip Colwell, Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
In the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Native American cultures hall there are an array of mannequins representing Native peoples. Some are faceless dummies that could be selling jeans at The Gap. Some are Plexiglas cutouts with faces drawn in Sharpie. Some are digital. Some were originally hand sculpted with local Native Americans posing for the artist. This jumble of images is the springboard to examine the quandaries of representation, participation, voice, inclusivity, and interpretation that have long plagued the anthropology museum. Yet, even after several decades of concerted effort—the rise of the National Museum of the American Indian, the celebration of the collaborative ethic—these dilemmas continue to plague us. We are thus forced to ask: Is there truly a future for anthropology in the museum world? This lecture illuminates why an answer to that question is both strangely elusive and vitally necessary.
Dr. Chip Colwell is Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He has held fellowships with the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, National Endowment for the Humanities, and US Fulbright Program. He has published more than 50 scholarly articles and chapters, and 9 books. His work has been highlighted in such venues as The New York Times, The Denver Post, Archaeology Magazine, and garnered numerous awards, including the National Council on Public History Book Award. He is the founding editor-in-chief of SAPIENS, an online magazine dedicated to anthropology for the public.
Sponsored by donors to the Barbara A. and Edward G. Hail Lecture Fund.
November 2, 2016
Brown University