"In Their Own Words: Native Americans in World War I," tells the story of World War I through the words of Native American veterans who fought in the "Great War." Thousands of Native Americans, many of whom did not have citizenship rights, volunteered to fight on behalf of the United States of America.
View "In Their Own Words: Native Americans in World War I" exhibit
For 2022's Korea Remixed, the IUMAA presents a digital exhibition exploring the significance of hanbok (한복) in Korean culture and ways in which ideas of modesty influenced by Confucianism shaped these fashions in the twentieth century.
People, places, animals, things, and the wider universe exist together—ideally in a state of balance and harmony often referred to as Hózhó in the Diné bizaad (Navajo) language. Often translated simply as beauty and balance, Hózhó refers to far more than the physical beauty or aesthetic of an object. It is a complicated concept that emphasizes ways in which the world is interconnected and balanced between the static and changing, the part and the whole, and the physical and spiritual.
View "Hózhó: Navajo Beauty, Navajo Weavings" exhibit
In 2020, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures presented "800 Seasons: Change and Continuity in Bloomington, 1818-2018" which told the story of Bloomington from the ground up. How do nature and history shape one another in the American Midwest—and how are Bloomington’s possibilities for tomorrow shaped by 200 years of community building in the southern Indiana hill country? The exhibit, sponsored by IU’s Grand Challenges: Prepared for Environmental Change, was on display through March 13, 2020.
Virtual walk-through of exhibit
"Women in Archaeology" highlights some of the work done by women at the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, a predecessor to the IUMAA. The exhibit was posted in 2017.
Produced in conjunction with the Mathers Museum of World Cultures 2018 exhibit "Heads and Tales," our exhibit "Hats of Archaeology" takes a look at the various head fashions used in Indiana archaeology throughout the last century. Hats are also used as fashion statements. They may not have been chosen explicitly to make a statement or thought of like the fashions seen on runways, but by viewing these photographs we can get a sense of how people thought about clothing throughout the last century.
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