The Friends of Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery (FPCMAG) have donated £2500 to The Box for its first-ever work by a Native American artist.
Members of the FPCMAG pictured with ‘Mayflower 400: Legend and Legacy’ curator, Jo Loosemore and The Box’s CEO, Paul Brookes.
The funding is for a ceramic cooking pot based on the historic designs that would have been used inside traditional Wampanoag dwellings in the 1600s.
The pot will be one of the many items on display in The Box’s ‘Mayflower 400: Legend and Legacy’ exhibition when it opens in 2020, and is being made by Ramona Peters.
Ramona Peters with the Wampanoag Cooking Pot – March 2019. Image courtesy of SmokeSygnals.
Peters, also known as Nosapocket, is a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Nation. Working in partnership with Wampanaog cultural agency SmokeSygnals, she has already started developing the piece and is making great progress.
Once the ‘Mayflower 400: Legend and Legacy’ exhibition has finished the pot will become part of The Box’s permanent collections.
Members of the FPCMAG recently visited The Box’s construction site for a hard hat tour and officially presented a cheque to CEO Paul Brookes and exhibition curator Jo Loosemore.
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Great progress is being made on The Box’s Wampanoag Cooking Pot commission. Image courtesy of SmokeSygnals.
The Wampanoag, also known as the People of the First Light, are one of the many Nations of people who lived all over North America long before the Europeans arrived. Today there are two Wampanoag Nations in Massachusetts – the Mashpee and Aquinnah – with a combined population of just over 5,000. Their ancestors were the people who met the passengers of the Mayflower when they arrived 400 years ago.