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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.

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Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph

In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.

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The birth of the public museum

The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.

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Yoga gets physical

Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.

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  • A variety of Native Indian accessories and musical instruments with a warning to get children hooked on cultural pastimes rather than let them get involved in teen pregnancy, drugs and alcohol that can lead to AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases; advertisement by the Seattle Indian Health Board. Colour lithograph by Stewart Tilger and Christine P. Salvador.
  • Ngouna, Chief of the river Tuaregs, Burem, French Soudan
  • Pipe, argillite shale, very fine carving with intricately interlacing totemic figures of animals and supernatural creatures. Collected by the late Mr. George Roberts of Hudson's bay company. Haida Indians, North West Coast of America, Queen Charlotte Islands.
  • Zulu witch doctor dancing, South Africa. Tying cure in which the tie around the chest of a man suffering from pleurisy etc.
  • Swaziland: two young men seated, one of them smoking hemp
  • A native North American wearing an animal's head and feathered accessories with a schedule of events; an advertisement by Anishnawbe Health Toronto for The Joe Sylvester memorial Traditional Pow wow at Moss Park Armoury, Toronto on September 1 to 3, 1995. Colour lithograph by Joseph Sagutch, 1995.
  • An Alaskan man sitting on a red Honda 4-wheeler motorbike representing a man looking for a lover; warning about the risk of AIDS by the Alaska Native Health Board. Colour lithograph by Sam Kimura, 1992.
  • A woman wearing a red coat with a white fur collar holding a husky in a field representing a woman looking for a lover; warning about the risk of AIDS by the Alaska Native Health Board. Colour lithograph by Sam Kimura.
  • Baksa or Zuojhen (Zuozhen), Formosa [Taiwan]: Pepohoan dwellings. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Baksa or Zuojhen (Zuozhen), Formosa [Taiwan]: Pepohoan dwellings. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
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