LEFT: Pipe with anthropomorphic head. Iroquois, Glenbrook site, Ontario, Canada. Photo: Harry Forster, Musée Canadien des Civilisations, Gatineau. ABOVE: Pipe with anthropomorphic head. Iroquois, Glenbrook site, Ontario, Canada. Photo: Harry Forster, Musée Canadien des Civilisations, Gatineau. BELOW: Pipe. Iroquois, Canada. Photo: Pointe-à-Callière, Caroline Bergeron. LEFT: Relief plaque. Edo, Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria. 16th century. Brass. H: 52 cm. British Museum, Af1913,1211.1. © Trustees of the British Museum, 2015. BELOW: War canoe prow. Maori, New Zealand. 18th century. Wood. H: 112 cm. British Museum, Oc1900,0721.1. © Trustees of the British Museum, 2015. IROQUOIS Mexico City—After the resounding success of the Aztecs, People of the Sun exhibition, which featured 165 objects lent by the Museo del Templo Mayor in Mexico City, Quebec’s Pointe-à-Callière Museum is returning the favor with a reciprocal exhibition, Iroquois: An Archaeological Vision of an Ancient Quebec Culture, which can be seen in Mexico City until February 28, 2016. Thanks to this unprecedented cultural exchange, the Mexican public will have the opportunity to become acquainted with the rich culture of the Iroquois, who inhabited the banks of the Saint Lawrence River until the sixteenth century. The exhibition’s approximately 100 objects, which are from archaeological sites in Quebec, Ontario, and Eastern New York state, reveal an agrarian culture that introduced corn to the American continent’s northernmost latitudes. The exhibition also places special emphasis on the examination of the place of women in Iroquois society. TREASURES OF THE WORLD Singapore—Treasures of the World’s Cultures, one of the excellent exhibitions that the British Museum has been sponsoring outside its walls, is currently on view at the National Museum of Singapore. More than 250 outstanding works from all corners of the globe and covering a time span of two million years were selected for the event by curators Brendan Moore and Elisenda Vila Llonch from its holdings, spanning all of the London museum’s departments. The arts of Africa, Oceania, Asia, and the Americas are well represented and heavily featured in this encyclopedic museum, and the exhibition brings a survey of humanity’s history through its art to an area that does not generally have access to such in-depth diversity. The show can be seen December 5, 2015 until May 19, 2016.
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