It started with seeing certain regalia from his Musqueam Indian Band - sacred objects not intended for public display - in the museum's Northwest Coast Hall.
This wasn't just any visit. Guerin was there at the museum's invitation in 2017 for the start of a project to renovate the hall, incorporating Indigenous perspectives. For him and representatives of other Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada, the 5-year, $19-million renovation of the Northwest Coast Hall, which reopened to the public Friday, was an opportunity to tell their stories themselves.
It had largely remained unchanged, though, since the early 1900s. When museum officials decided it was time to renovate, they knew they couldn't do it without input from the people whose cultures are on display. It wasn't a simple process, made even less so by the impact of the pandemic, which forced remote instead of in-person collaborations.
In what's new, items on display are accompanied by text in both English and Indigenous languages and the hall includes a gallery section showing how younger Indigenous artists are using motifs and designs from prior generations. There's also a video piece with people talking about the tribes' pasts, and their concerns in the present.
He said,"They seem to have a meta-language about them or a meta-message: 'Aren't we powerful? Don't we go forth and dominate the world?'"
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