Haudenosaunee Tatooing Practices: a Living Tradition
with Michael Galban and Jamie Jacobs
This meeting, which is part of the CROYAN Project, celebrates the practice of tattooing, which combines traditional and contemporary artistic aspects. Michael Galban and Jamie Jacobs will discuss the role of Haudenosaunee tattooing as an artistic practice and a mark of identity in northeastern North America.
Michael Galban, a specialist in Haudenosaunee culture, a tattoo artist and the new Director of the Seneca Art & Culture Center at Ganondagan, will be in discussion with Jamie Jacobs, a Haudenosaunee ritualist and member of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, and curator at the Rochester Museum & Science Center.
The discussion will broach traditional and contemporary tattooing, its importance at the time of the first colonizers, the reasons for its decline in the 20th century, and contemporary projects for its revitalization. With their combined expertise, the two speakers will paint a fuller picture of the history of tattooing, its wealth and variety, referring to examples from the museum collections.
Photographs of the event
Informations
Date
Marc, 18, 2022
Place
Salon de lecture Jacques Kerchache
Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac
37 Quai Jacques Chirac, 75007 Paris
Time
15h30
Admission
Free (within the limits of available places)
Speakers
Jamie JACOBS
Conservateur des collections de la Rock Foundation, Rochester Museum & Science Center (Nation Seneca de Tonawanda)
Michael GALBAN
Director, Seneca Art & Culture Center, Ganondagan State Historic Site, Victor, New York (Washoe et Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiutes Nations)
