Eternal Sovereigns
Indigenous Artists, Activists, and Travelers Reframing Rome
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Product details:
- Publisher Duke University Press Books
- Date of Publication 4 November 2024
- Number of Volumes Cloth over boards
- ISBN 9781478026617
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 47 illustrations, including 16 in color 0
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Short description:
Gloria Jane Bell explores the relationship between Indigenous cultures around the world and the Vatican, which holds thousands of works by Indigenous scholars and refuses to return them.
MoreLong description:
In 1925, Pius XI staged the Vatican Missionary Exposition in Rome’s Vatican City. Offering a narrative of the Catholic Church’s beneficence to a global congregation, the exposition displayed thousands of cultural belongings stolen from Indigenous communities, which were seen by one million pilgrims. Gloria Jane Bell’s Eternal Sovereigns offers critical revision to that story. Bell reveals the tenacity, mobility, and reception of Indigenous artists, travelers, and activists in 1920s Rome. Animating these conjunctures, the book foregrounds competing claims to sovereignty from Indigenous and papal perspectives. Bell deftly juxtaposes the “Indian Museum” of nineteenth-century sculptor Ferdinand Pettrich, acquired by the Vatican, with the oeuvre of Indigenous artist Edmonia Lewis. Focusing on Turtle Island, Bell analyzes Indigenous cultural belongings made by artists from nations including Cree, Lakota, Anishinaabe, Nipissing, Kanien’kehá:ka, Wolastoqiyik, and Kwakwaka’wakw. Drawing on years of archival research and field interviews, Bell provides insight into the Catholic Church’s colonial collecting and its ongoing ethnological display practices. Written in a voice that questions the academy’s staid conventions, the book reclaims Indigenous belongings and other stolen treasures that remain imprisoned in the stronghold of the Vatican Museums.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. A Nomad in the Roman Archives: Writing from the Margins 1
1. Unsettling the Indian Museum in Rome: Ferdinand Pettrich and Edmonia Wildfire Lewis 23
2. “The Most Exhaustive Record of the World’s Progress Ever Displayed”: Pope Pius XI’s Culture of Conquest and Visitors’ Experiences at the Vatican Missionary Exposition 53
3. “A Window on the World” of Colonial Unknowing: Dioramas, Children’s Games, and Missionary Perspectives at the Vatican Missionary Exposition 91
4. Eternal Sovereigns and Ancestral Art: Ancient Archives, Relatives, and Travelers at the Vatican Missionary Exposition 125
Epilogue. Deus ex Machina: An Indigenous Protester at the Vatican Missionary Exposition 159
Appendix. Letters on Accessing the Vatican Missionary Ethnological Museum 167
Notes 171
Bibliography 207
Index 231
