When I was a girl, I wasn’t much into dolls. I was the kind of kid who fell asleep with my box of books next to me in my bed (along with about a 75 stuffed animals). When I, at the age of two, had […]
All posts tagged: Representation
Yukagir Spirit Figure – Siberia, Russia
Looking at this figure, what creature would you think it represents? Man? Animal? Both? Collected in 1999 by Rane Willerslev, during his fieldwork in the blistering cold of Siberia, this figure tells the story of an important link in the complex process of the Yukagir hunters’ preparation for killing […]
Displaying Confusion: The Mystery Doll – Africa
Have you ever wondered how historians, archaeologists and ethnographers come to be certain about facts presented in museums? Even though curators draw on each other’s expertise across museums, countries and corners of the world, some items are never fully put in place, as it is […]
