Imagi/Nations: Native North American Photographs from the Royal Anthropological Institute, curated by Max Carocci. - To accompany the book launch of "Warriors of the Plains" by Dr Max Carocci
Images of Native North Americans part of little known collections such as the ones of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) offer a rare glimpse into the visual history of indigenous North American nations (Canadian First Nations, Native Americans, Inuit).
The present exhibition presents a selection of some 35 photographs from collections part of the RAI’s photographic archives that cover areas as different as early physical anthropology, visual records of material culture, as well as social and cultural life of Native North Americans between the 19th c. and the early decades of the 20th c. Collections include images of peoples from Greenland and the Pacific Northwest coast, the Southwest USA, Canadian Great Lakes, the Great Plains, and Eastern woodlands.