Lab Hours

Total lab hours for the past week are 8 1/2. This was spent reading and blogging, research of references and images, meeting with Dr. Castaneda, in the museum filling out forms and studying my baskets, and time spent typing forms for research project.

Lab Hours Ammended

Just got out of my 10:00 class and realized I forgot to add my time for taking the quiz to my lab hours this morning. I used 49 of the 50 minutes! So I guess my total for the week should read 3 hrs. 49 minutes.

Lab Hours

I spent 1 hour prepping for the quiz, 1 hour going through books I checked out from the library doing research on my objects for resources, and 45 minutes in the museum with 2 of my friends last Friday, maybe 15 minutes reading and blogging, for a total of 3 hours.

Hours Total 2 1/2

I spent 1 hour on Repatriation exercise, 1 hour reading other repatriation posts and blogs and posting, and 1/2 hr. last Thursday at the museum with my friend Shelley. She came early, before I got out of class, and visited the museum and I spent 1/2 hr. afterwards with her in the museum. She really loved our exhibit and thought it would be great to see in settings at other museums. We then got to have a lovely lunch on campus in the sunshine. I took her to the library to see the other 2 exhibits there. This Friday 2 more of my friends are coming to see our exhibit also. It's good to have such supportive friends!

Repatriation

1. Notice on Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Denver Musesum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO (August 29, 2008). In 1965 a pair of collectors obtained "18 silver Seminole pendants: from an American Indian art dealer, and three years later donated them to the museum. According to transaction records, four of the pendants "are from a burial over 100 years old." The museum agreed to return the pendants to the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood and Tampa Reservations. (American Indian Art, Vol. 35(2):78, Spring 2010).

6. Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Buffalo Field Office, Buffalo, NY (August 20, 2008). On November 25, 1876 Colonel Ranald Mackenzie's Fourth Cavalry attacked a village of Cheyennes camped along the Red Fork of Powder River on the eastern slopes of the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. The site of this fight is known as the Dull Knife Battlefield, in recognition of the senior Cheyenne chief present. One hundred ten years later the Bureau of Land Management analyzed material excavated from the grave of a Native American woman located on federal land adjacent to the battlefield and removed fifteen unassociated funerary objects. including pieces of brown and blue wood, tanned leather and one fragment each of rawhide and wood. it was determined that these items should be turned over the the Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana. (American Indian Art, Vol. 35(2):78, Spring 2010).

8. Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Field Museum, Chicago, IL (September 10, 2008). In 1902 the museum purchased a wooden rattle and worked walrus tusk from navy lieutenant George T. Emmons, who served in Alaska and from whom the institution acquired a considerable amount of Naive American material starting in the 1890's. The thirteen-inch-long, red-and-blue rattle represents an oyster catcher; the walrus tusk is composed of four sections, each about eleven inches in lenght. Collection informationstates that the tusk sections wee :found in an old cave on a small island in Icy Straits [southeastern Alaska] where a Shaman of the 'Hoonah' tribe ws laid away," while the oyster catcher came from a grave house on Frederick Bay, "near the village of 'Gan-der-kan,' of the 'Hoonah trivew.'" The museum agreed to give bot unassociated funerary objects to the Hoonah Indian Association of Alaska. (American Indian Art, Vol 35(2):79, Spring 2010).

lab hours-2 1/2

I spent 1 hour in the CSUS library looking for books for research on my baskets, 1/2 hr. viewing the exhibit in the library, "The Resistance and Relief," Greek American Operations during WWII, and 1 hour completing the exhibit/collection catalog review and critque assignment. I also asked at the library whether the basement was open, and the librarian at the resource center said the water only affected the media side and that the basement was open.

Hours

I spent 3 hours this week reading blogs, Museum Career Information sites, and on the Burcaw assignment.