Acknowledgements

This exhibition has been produced with the financial assistance of the Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) programme of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Text and captions were written by Andrea Kirkpatrick, Curator of Canadian and International Art, New Brunswick Museum, and Nicole Brouillet, Curatorial Assistant. Portions were contributed by Sarah Jones and Sophie Cameron, Curatorial Assistants.

Staff members at the New Brunswick Museum have contributed enormously to this study, in particular Michelle Hébert, Curatorial Assistant, and Christine Little and Jennifer Longon in the Archives and Research Library, Dr. Randall Miller, Curator of Geology & Paleontology, Dr. Donald McAlpine, Curator of Zoology, and Dr. Stephen Clayden, Curator of Botany and Mycology, for advice on matters relating to their fields.

Special thanks are due to the following:

For the NBM:

Jane Fullerton, Director and CEO

Bruce Thomson, Web Project Development

For biographical information:

Alexander Brust, Leiter Abteilung Amerika, Museum der Kulturen Basel, and Lorenzo Ramella, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Switzerland, for information on Dr. Emil Hassler and his collections in Switzerland;

Dr. Cathleen D. Cahill and Dr. Margaret Connell-Szasz, Department of History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Nelson Foss and Tomas Jaehn, Palace of the Governors/The New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Al Regensberg, Senior Archivist, New Mexico State Records Center & Archives, Santa Fe, for help in finding teaching records of Annie M. Sayre;

Ruby M. Cusack;

Staff of Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John, New Brunswick;

Audrey Portman, Researcher, for information on Frank Cobham;

Staff of the Saint John Regional Library.

For information and advice regarding various artefacts:

Heiner Darre, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, for publication information on Gesner’s “Ancient German Prayer and Psalm Book” (G2189);

Beverley Jackson for information on Chinese mandarin badges;

Kim Jiyoon and Kim Mihyun for assistance with Korean costume;

Janice B. Klein, Registrar, Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago, for making records available on the Hassler Collection and other records relating to the World’s Columbian Exposition;

Gabriella Tassinari for generous help and advice on European gem-engraving and plaster casts;

Mark Trumpour, Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, Toronto, for his comments on the NBM’s Egyptian collection, especially the Mechanics’ Institute Shabti Figure (N680).

Barbara Watanabe, Museum Specialist, South American Ethnology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and Dr. Robert Carneiro, Curator, South American Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, for confirming the identity of G2203 as a South American child’s hammock. Barbar Watanabe also generously shared information on Hassler artifacts in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.

 

For their vital and timely assistance with questions relating to the Oceanic collection:

Dr. J. Stephen Athens, General Manager, International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii, for confirming the identity of the adze from Pohnpei (G2141);

Dr. David Hanlon, Director, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaii, for his valuable help and guidance during the early stages of research on the New Brunswick Museum Pohnpei items;

Dr. Steven Hooper, Director of the Sainsbury Research Unit, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, for identifying the Fijian bow (G2144.1); and for sorting out the five spears from Fiji and the Solomon Islands (N750-N752, N754 and N756);

Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator (Oceania), Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, for help with G2144.1;

Sean Mallon, Senior Curator, Pacific Cultures, Museum of New Zealand, for assistance in identifying G2144.1;

Dr. Donald Rubinstein, Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam, for confirming that the belt (G2137) is from Pohnpei and suggesting helpful literature.

Photographers:

Rob Roy and Rod Stears, Saint John, New Brunswick