Trophies, Relics and Curios?

Dr. Karen Jacobs is Senior Lecturer at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia. She has worked on various international research projects, focusing on the Kamoro region in West Papua, on Polynesian Visual Arts, the Arts of Fiji, and material heritage of British missions in Africa and the Pacific.

Chantal Knowles is currently Head of Cultural Environments Program at Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Prior to this she spent 13 years at the National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh as Principal Curator for Oceania, Americas and Africa. She was Chair of the Museum Ethnographers Group, 2011-2014.

Chris Wingfield is Senior Curator (Archaeology) at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge. He has a particular interest in the museum and collections of the London Missionary Society. He has previously worked on a number of research projects at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and as a curator at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.