Tag Archives: Colonialism

1895: A-ka-u-ku

Posted on May 12, 2019 by corvusfugit

In 1895, King Njoya of the Bamum, an ethnic group from what is now western Cameroon, invented an alphabet to record the history of his people. Njoya, who traced his linaege back 16 or 17 generations of kings, was insipred … Continue reading →

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1869: Mount Tamalpais

Posted on November 25, 2018 by corvusfugit

William Marple: Mount Tamalpais from Napa Slough (1869) The name “Tamalpais” derives from the Coast Miwok name for the mountain, támal pájiṣ, which means “west hill.” The Coast Miwok numbered between 1,500 and 2,000 before the arrival of Europeans to … Continue reading →

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2013: A Brief History of Architecture in Guatemala

Posted on August 14, 2018 by corvusfugit

A still from Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa’s performance piece Breve Historia de la Arquitectura en Guatemala (2013). The performers are Diego Sagastume and Jennifer De León.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Architecture, Art, Christianity, Colonialism, Guatemala, Maya, Native Americans, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Performance Art | Leave a comment

1838: Matua Tawai

Posted on December 28, 2017 by corvusfugit

Alexandre Pierre Marie Dumoutier: plaster cast of Matua Tawai, a New Zealander of Ikanamawi (1838) Moulage sur nature became a powerful freezing and fixation tool used to document a natural and even human hic et nunc status. In the great … Continue reading →

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1972: Boycott Gulf

Posted on December 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

An anti-colonialist poster from the early 1970’s produced by the Pan-African Liberation Committee in Brookline, Massachusetts: “There are but two sides in a war—she fights on the side of African freedom – Gulf finances the other.” At the time, Angola … Continue reading →

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1671: The Latest and Most Accurate

Posted on November 28, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Ogilby: America- Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World (1671); the book is an English translation of Arnold Montanus’s De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld. The title of this plate is “Viztlipuztli idolum Mexicanorum” —The Mexicans’ … Continue reading →

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1531: Codex

Posted on August 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

The Huexotzinco Codex is an eight-sheet document on amatl, a pre-European paper made in Mesoamerica. It is part of the testimony in a legal case against representatives of the colonial government in Mexico, ten years after the Spanish conquest in … Continue reading →

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1825: Vale of Honey

Posted on July 31, 2017 by corvusfugit

The most contentious aspect of [the mid-19th-century British project to survey Ireland, 1825–46] is the way in which place names were anglicized, replaced by English alternatives or simply mis-recorded….Irish names were altered…mostly through the processes of “dictation” in which a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 19th Century, Colonialism, Great Britain, Ireland, Language, P. W. Joyce | 2 Comments

2014: A Moroccan Man (1913)

Posted on July 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop stages his self-portraits as historical photographs—complete with “original” dates. The photo above, for example, is titled A Moroccan man (1913); the one to the left is Dom Nicolau (Circa. 1830–1860). Both are from his 2014 … Continue reading →

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1819: Kahikona arrives in Hawai’i

Posted on July 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

Beginning in the early part of the last millennium, Polynesians explored 16 million square miles of ocean by canoe, navigating by the stars, sun, clouds, ocean swells, and currents; they settled on every habitable island in the Pacific and likely … Continue reading →

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