Addenda
The Investigating Provenance and Post-colonial Perspectives in the George and Louise Patten Collection of Salem Hyde Cultural Artifacts exhibition strives for transparency not only in discussing collection practices, but also the decisions and explorations within the exhibit. We decided to capitalize “Indigenous” and “Native” as a sign of respect in the same way that English, Spanish, and French are capitalized. When referring to Indigenous peoples, “peoples'' recognizes tribes as individual entities. By reading the correspondence and papers in the George and Louise Patten Collection of Salem Hyde Papers and Cultural Artifacts and interviewing scholars this exhibit aims to retell the stories behind the artifacts represented from a post-colonial perspective that seeks to acknowledge, respect, and credit the original creators.
Logo
This graphic has been used in the exhibit to reference the letterhead design that Salem Hyde used on all of his correspondence and envelopes. It is unsure where Hyde sourced this graphic, but it is expected that it was a copyright free logo from the 1960s. The same graphic has been found on the cover of The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories about the Cycles of Creativity audiobook by Dr.Clarissa Pinkola Estés from 1992. In a letter from Luis Estrada, there is a record of the gifting of a pre-Columbian ceramic seal (MS-022-01-02-016) in the collection because of its similarity to Hyde’s letterhead. Like much of the collection, the history behind this logo is uncertain.
Research
Chelsey Paige and Mallory Crook presented their research Investigating Provenance and Post-colonial Perspectives in the George and Louise Patten Collection of Salem Hyde Cultural Artifacts at Research Dialogues 2021.
Acknowledgements
This exhibition is possible through the support from the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavor (URaCE), Department of Art, and Special Collections unit of the Library at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The curators of the exhibition, Chelsey Paige and Mallory Crook, worked in Special Collections researching, rehousing, and rethinking the George and Louise Patten Collection of Salem Hyde Papers and Cultural Artifacts, building on the efforts of previous interns, Kristen O’Connor, Brandon Mitchell, Shyla Banar, and Samantha McCormack with support from Dr. Andrew Workinger of the Department of Anthropology.
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