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Closing the Circle:
A Repatriation Journey
Symposium
sponsored by Oberlin College's anthropology department
Saturday, April 27
9 A.M.-5 P.M.
Craig Lecture Hall Science Center , 119 Woodland St.
Free and open to the public
Related Exhibitions:
Qaqa'pe: Flat Twined Bags of the Columbia River Plateau
thru June 2 Allen Memorial Art Museum
First Missionaries in the Oregon Territory
thru May 16 Main Level Oberlin College Library
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OBERLIN COLLEGE TO RETURN LOST ITEM TO NEZ PERCE TRIBE APRIL 27
APRIL 19, 2002-- A woven item belonging to the Nez Perce Tribe that had been lost in the ethnographic collections of Oberlin College's anthropology department for over 100 years will be returned to the tribe on Saturday, April 27.
The item, a twined root bag, will be presented at the conclusion of an Oberlin symposium -- Closing the Circle: A Repatriation Journey -- to Josiah Pinkham, the tribe's ethnographer, and Lynette Pinkham, a master weaver, who will accompany the bag on its journey to the Spalding-Allen Collection at the Nez Perce National Historic Park in Spalding, Idaho. The bag was collected by Henry Harmon Spalding, missionary to the Nez Perce, in the 1840's.
The symposium will bring together members of the Oberlin College faculty and staff and national experts for a day-long program that includes a demonstration and discussion of flat twined weaving techniques by Ms. Pinkham at 10:30 A.M.; lectures on the history of the Spalding-Allen Collection and the development of flat twined weaving in the 19th and 20th centuries; and panel discussions on museum collections and repatriation of Native American cultural patrimony.
The symposium is accompanied by two exhibitions -- Qaqa'pe: Flat Twined Bags of the Columbia River Plateau at the Allen Memorial Art Museum -- and First Missionaries in the Oregon Territory on the Main Level of the Oberlin College Library.
Symposium participants include Linda Grimm, associate professor of anthropology at Oberlin College; Steven L. Grafe, an expert in the history and arts of the Columbia River Plateau; Mary Dodds Schlick, a widely recognized expert on basketry and weaving among native peoples of the Columbia Plateau; Elizabeth Jane Atack '01, Oberlin archival researcher; Oberlin College Archivist Roland M. Baumann; and Joyce M. Szabo, chair of the department of art and art history at the University of New Mexico.
Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli
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