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This object is under review for NAGPRA-sensitivity.

Recent updates to NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) require consent from lineal descendants and/or affiliated Native American Tribes or Native Hawaiian Organizations before displaying or researching cultural items. We have removed the public image of this belonging until we can learn more about the wishes of affiliated Tribal officials or the descendants of those who made it.

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Label Text:
This sculpture depicts a pronghorn, an animal native to the American Southwest and closely related to the giraffe. It was given to the Museum by an alumna who taught at Zuni Pueblo on the border of Arizona and New Mexico in 1885. Former students of the Mount Holyoke Seminary would often send their alma mater representative objects from the communities in which they worked. The Museum continues to collect objects from these communities, which reveal a spectrum of materiality and connect the past with the present through objects.

-Aaron Miller, Associate Curator of Visual and Material Culture, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Sept. 2016)

Tags:
indigenous people; Native American

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