A Family Affair: Making Cloth in Taquile, Peru

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  • May 9 - October 1, 1989 (Gallery 5)
  • Making cloth is a vital, everyday activity in Taquile, where everyone makes and uses cloth according to tradition. This exhibit presents examples of the cloth and clothing made by a four-generation family over a five-year period. The family’s cloth parallels their lives, reflecting changes in the community as well as the stages and momentous events in their lives between 1982 and 1987. Their portraits and biographies, their simple tools and images of their island home will accompany the exhibit.

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UBC Museum of Anthropology Report on Activities April 1, 1989 - March 31, 1990

The report outlines the museum's administrative activities and finances for the previous fiscal year as well as listing staff, attendance figures, acquisitions, exhibitions, educational activities, public programming, events, loans, research projects, publications of the museum and its staff, and media coverage of the museum. It includes descriptions of the expansion of the museum to include the Koerner Ceramics Gallery, the West Coast Circle, and contributions to the Canadian Museum of Civilization, among other initiatives.

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Series contains photographs taken by Cunningham of the inside and outside of the building, exhibit cases, exhibit spaces, and other institutions.

A Family Affair: Making Cloth in Taquile Peru

Subseries consists of records relating to the exhibit "A Family Affair: Making Cloth in Taquile Peru". This exhibit was installed at MOA from May 9 – Oct 1 1989, in Gallery 5. Elizabeth Johnson coordinated this exhibit; it was curated by Mary Frame. Records include: correspondence, grant applications, labels, newsletters, newspaper articles, drawings, notes, phone messages, slide list, statements of agreement, photocopies of documents outlining the layout and budget for the exhibit, inventories of materials used and notes on the exhibit graphics, photocopies of photos selected for the exhibit, and copies of the text for the didactic panels.

Elizabeth Lominska Johnson