Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa

While based in Canada, the dynamics of the 'Pictures Bring Us Messages' project is relevant to indigenous peoples and heritage institutions around the world.

Alison K. Brown is a research fellow with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

Laura Peers is a lecturer and curator with the Pitt Rivers Museum and the School of Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

‘This book is a major contribution to research into museum/archives collections and how the people who work at these institutions can reach out to and work productively and collaboratively with Aboriginal peoples. The photos – the focus of the book – are excellent, and the text is carefully written, thoughtful, and analytical.’

Sarah Carter, Department of History, University of Calgary:

'"Pictures Bring Us Messages" marks a serious advance in research. There are regrettably far too few such collaborative projects, although the need has been identified for many years. This book is unique, innovative, and valuable, with scholarship of the highest standard. It establishes that it is possible to bridge a divide – perceived and sustained by museums, archives, historians, and others – if Indigenous ethics and protocols, and the needs of the source community, are respected.'