Students produce exhibit on Northern Californian Native American cultures

Titled “From Curios to Ambassadors: Changing Roles of the Daggett Collection from Tribes of the Lower Klamath River,” the exhibit was the product of ARCHLGY 134: “Museum Cultures: Material Representation in the Past and Present.” The class, led by Christina Hodge, academic curator and collections manager for the Stanford Archaeology Collections, worked on the exhibit during spring quarter 2015...Over 100 years since Daggett first collected these items, Hodge now views them instead as representatives of culture. “They are ambassadors from their home communities — here to represent their cultures, here to educate about them, here to make connections between communities,” she added.