Above: Unknown photographer, Heard Museum. Courtesy of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, 87-45-799. 52 Above: Head band, peue’ei. Marquesas Islands. Porpoise teeth, blue beads, coconut husk fiber. D: 25.4 cm. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California, Dr. John Rabe, DDS, Collection. MUSEUM news TIME EXPOSURES Phoenix—The Pueblo of Isleta was founded in the fourteenth century in the Middle Rio Grande Valley near present-day Albuquerque, New Mexico. A Spanish mission church was built there around 1630 and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 resulted in an influx of Hopi blood and culture into the community. By the nineteenth century, it was an unusually prosperous community and the center of a wide trading network. Anglo-American travelers, linguists, scientists, and photographers were common visitors and Isletan life and ritual observances were unusually well documented, though almost entirely from an external perspective. An exhibition currently at the Heard Museum looks at Isletan history from the residents’ perspective, particularly focusing on the lasting effects of nineteenthcentury changes on their lives today. Time Exposures: Picturing a History of Isleta Pueblo in the 19th Century uses historic photographs and a variety of other media to tell the story of the pueblo and its evolution. It opens with a look at the cycle of the traditional year as it was observed in the mid-nineteenth century and then traces the arrival of the Americans, the ways this influx disrupted the Isleta way of life, and how the Isleta people fought changes and eventually “learned to become members of America on our own terms.” The final part examines the historic photographs as products of white culture, exploring the underlying ideas and values, asking “what kind of record they truly represent of our people and our ways.” Time Exposures will be on view until September 27, 2015. PACIFIC WORLDS Oakland—An unusual exhibition coming to the Oakland Museum of California examines the deep and many-layered histories of the lower United States West Coast’s interactions with the Pacific and explores the historic and ongoing connections between Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians, Filipinos, Native Californians, and Anglo-Americans as residents, colonists, and collectors. Turning the familiar idea of California as the western frontier on its head and repositioning the state as “the East Coast of the Pacific,” Pacific Worlds weaves together objects and ephemera from the museum’s collection with contemporary California Pacific Islander artwork and community voices. On view from May 30, 2015–January 3, 2016, the show looks at how Pacific practices such as dance, music, food, fiber arts, tattooing, surfing, and art have impacted the cultural landscape of the state. It is presented to coincide with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in nearby San Francisco. View of San Augustine Mission Church. 1880. Above: Antonio Zeno Shindler (1823–1899), Ambrosio Abeita, 1868. Hand-tinted silver gelatin print. Heard Museum. Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, 02387200. Left: Ear pendant. Maori, New Zealand. Whalebone, sealing wax. W: 4.6 cm. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. Below: Model outrigger canoe. Probably Micronesia. Wood, cotton twine. L: 47 cm. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California, gift of Mrs. C. L. Mitchell.
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