Collections Conversations
By Powell-Cotton Museum
Each podcast has been made with a different community partner, who has collaborated with the Museum to lead a discussion on a collection, or object, that ignites their passion, or speaks to their interests. It is an opportunity to provide a different perspective on our collections, and to pick up some of the complex stories from from our Museum’s past that can’t always be told in a word-limited text label.
Collections ConversationsDec 16, 2022
The 'Didinga Skirmish' reframed
In this episode, Lucy Edematie (freelance writer, curator and consultant working with Powell-Cotton Museum) chats with Nalimaakono Odeng Lomujalamoi (Community leader, researcher & historian of the Didinga & Larim peoples). Lucy and Odeng will be discussing Percy Powell-Cotton's encounter with the Didinga people in the early 1900s, the circumstances in which he acquired artefacts from them, and what it means today for Didinga cultural heritage to be housed in the Powell-Cotton Museum.
Juma Ondeng chats about UK Museums holding Kenyan historical objects
In this Q&A, Inbal Livne (former Head of Collections, Powell-Cotton Museum) chats to Juma Ondeng (Keeper Antiquities, Sites and Monuments-Western Region, National Museum of Kenya) about the Powell-Cotton Museum’s Kenyan collection and the work of the International Inventories Programme (https://www.inventoriesprogramme.org), which is digitally connecting Kenyans with their cultural heritage held in European museums.
Collections Conversations: Margate Pride on textiles and social activism
In this episode, Emma-Jayne Hamlington (Learning and Outreach Officer, Powell-Cotton Museum) chats with Mia Pollak from Margate Pride (https://www.margatepride.org.uk). Emma-Jayne and Mia examine the Museum’s Kanga collection – textiles that tell a story – and discuss the importance of wearing your identity, especially in situations when you might find yourself unable to safely speak your mind.