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On March 28, join the New Bedford Whaling Museum online and in person for a symposium on global carving traditions from across the Pacific.
On Tuesday March 28, the one-day symposium The Wider World and Scrimshaw will be held in person at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, with an option to attend virtually. Renowned and emerging scholars will explore global carving traditions from across the Pacific that were influenced by, discussed with, and influenced the “Yankee” whaling scrimshaw. The day celebrates international maritime material culture and delves deep into the New Bedford Whaling MuseumIndigenous collections from Oceania, the Pacific Northwest and the global Arctic. The symposium is generously supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
The Wider World and Scrimshaw is an exciting opportunity to bring together leading scholars and new voices working on Pacific material culture and explore an understudied area of our collection in relation to the whaler scrimshaw “Yankee”. The museum’s scrimshaw collection is the largest in the world and has been widely studied and published. In contrast, our Pacific Rim collections are less well understood. This symposium is an opportunity to reframe our approach to these two areas of the collection from a global perspective.
Naomi Slipp, Chief Curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Speakers will examine Alaskan Native carving traditions, including Iñupiat and Yup’ik makers, Native Hawaiian Lei niho palaoa, Fijian tabua, Maori material culture and Pilipinx records, as well as the circulation and reproduction of imperialist imagery, and will share models for Indigenous peoples. led engagement with museum collections. The symposium aims to open a dialogue about the colonial legacies that inform collections like this, and pose the question: how can we better understand and interpret these collections from a global perspective, and what can such engagements offer – in galleries and beyond, as steward of object museums around the world?
For more information or to purchase in-person or virtual tickets, visit whalingmuseum.org.
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