A 3-day physical exhibition to display large prints of digital photographs of the artefacts in the Gaidinliu Collection, together with 3D-printed models of selected artefacts which can be handled by visitors. A short film about the collection will be screened, together with slideshows providing a glimpse of workshops and fieldwork conducted as part of the project. Through information about the artefacts, the exhibition will try to raise questions about how the process of digital repatriation transforms our understanding of these artefacts in the context of contemporary debates on decolonisation, museum heritage, and digital cultures.
Can digital technology be used to repatriate artefacts acquired by museums in the course of colonialism? This exhibition looks at how digital photography, video and 3D photogrammetry are being used to facilitate the ‘digital return’ of artefacts seized from the Naga community in north-eastern India over 90 years ago. This 3-day exhibition will be the first public display in the UK of images and 3D replicas of artefacts from the Gaidinliu Collection, kept in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. It will be an opportunity to learn more about the process of digital return through hands-on experience with the objects and interactions with the people behind the project. Tell us what you think and how we can make things better!
Arkotong Longkumer, Professor of Anthropology and Modern Asia, University of Edinburgh
Gaurav Rajkhowa, Post Doctoral Research Associate, University of Edinburgh
open to all
While the event is open to all, it will be of particular interest to school and university students interested in history, cultural studies and anthropology; and to academics interested in digital humanities, museum and heritage studies, and digital manufacturing.
28 - 30 October, 10am - 1.30pm