Robbie Richardson
@londonmikmaq.bsky.social
Oinpegitjoig Mi'gmaw.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
Teaches 18th-century lit and Indigenous Studies.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
Teaches 18th-century lit and Indigenous Studies.
It’s not labelled as such but this porcupine quillwork and birchbark miniature canoe I’ve just come across in Scotland is definitely Mi’gmaq and made for the tourist trade in the 19th century.
December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It’s not labelled as such but this porcupine quillwork and birchbark miniature canoe I’ve just come across in Scotland is definitely Mi’gmaq and made for the tourist trade in the 19th century.
Getting festive in Iceland with a Yule lad.
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Getting festive in Iceland with a Yule lad.
Love the neighbours’ sign: “Presidents are temporary, Wu-Tang is Forever.”
December 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Love the neighbours’ sign: “Presidents are temporary, Wu-Tang is Forever.”
As a friend just said to me, when New York gets it right, it really gets it right.
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
As a friend just said to me, when New York gets it right, it really gets it right.
A large effigy figuring made by a Cochiti Pueblo artist around 1880. It is a satirical depiction of a white settler arriving in the Southwest, and was purchased by a collector seeking "authentic" Indigenous art who was unknowingly purchasing a caricature of themselves.
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A large effigy figuring made by a Cochiti Pueblo artist around 1880. It is a satirical depiction of a white settler arriving in the Southwest, and was purchased by a collector seeking "authentic" Indigenous art who was unknowingly purchasing a caricature of themselves.
Paintings by Anishinaabe artist Rhonda Snow honouring the endangered Ojibwe Spirit Horses that run in this field at Mādahòkì Farm.
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Paintings by Anishinaabe artist Rhonda Snow honouring the endangered Ojibwe Spirit Horses that run in this field at Mādahòkì Farm.
Very cool that this Native-owned farm has a herd of endangered Ojibwe Spirit Horses, which once roamed across Turtle Island and were precious to Indigenous communities but were nearly wiped out by colonisers by the 1970s. They are notably kind horses.
November 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Very cool that this Native-owned farm has a herd of endangered Ojibwe Spirit Horses, which once roamed across Turtle Island and were precious to Indigenous communities but were nearly wiped out by colonisers by the 1970s. They are notably kind horses.
Another good Mi’gmaq language card from Listuguj
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Another good Mi’gmaq language card from Listuguj
Excellent Mi’gmaq language flash card.
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Excellent Mi’gmaq language flash card.
Visiting family and found the tiniest Mi’gmaw basket in my brother’s house, still made of ash and sweetgrass like the big ones.
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Visiting family and found the tiniest Mi’gmaw basket in my brother’s house, still made of ash and sweetgrass like the big ones.
An Iñupiaq cribbage board made and painted by Wilbur Willuk in 1958 out of a whale's tooth.
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
An Iñupiaq cribbage board made and painted by Wilbur Willuk in 1958 out of a whale's tooth.
A cribbage board made from walrus ivory by an Inuit artist around c.1900.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A cribbage board made from walrus ivory by an Inuit artist around c.1900.
This brilliant poem by Layli Long Soldier was one of the class favourites from her book.
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This brilliant poem by Layli Long Soldier was one of the class favourites from her book.
This week’s teaching.
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This week’s teaching.
This headline ticks all the boxes for me.
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This headline ticks all the boxes for me.
The so-called “Cup of Montezuma,” made c.1400 and later drawn in London at the Society of Antiquaries in 1763. William Robertson claimed it was the only “unquestionable“ piece of Mexican art in Britain in 1777, but it is actually from a Chimú artist in Peru.
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The so-called “Cup of Montezuma,” made c.1400 and later drawn in London at the Society of Antiquaries in 1763. William Robertson claimed it was the only “unquestionable“ piece of Mexican art in Britain in 1777, but it is actually from a Chimú artist in Peru.
I’ve heard of the monster being conflated with its creator but not quite to this level.
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I’ve heard of the monster being conflated with its creator but not quite to this level.
A tiny Indian primer, or book of religious instruction written in Wampanoag and printed at Harvard College in 1669; the buckskin cover and wooden binding are original, and the now-faint strawberry design is believed to have been done by an Indigenous binder. The book has been in Scotland since 1675.
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A tiny Indian primer, or book of religious instruction written in Wampanoag and printed at Harvard College in 1669; the buckskin cover and wooden binding are original, and the now-faint strawberry design is believed to have been done by an Indigenous binder. The book has been in Scotland since 1675.
A medieval staircase from Mallorca, purchased by William Randolph Hearst when the original house was torn down and planned for his house in Beverley Hills, but sold en route from a warehouse in the Bronx to European nobles in exile in New Jersey who installed it in their home until the 1950s.
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A medieval staircase from Mallorca, purchased by William Randolph Hearst when the original house was torn down and planned for his house in Beverley Hills, but sold en route from a warehouse in the Bronx to European nobles in exile in New Jersey who installed it in their home until the 1950s.
It's International Inuit Day! Check out this wonderful print by the late great Inuit artist Kananginak Pootoogook called "The First Tourist."
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It's International Inuit Day! Check out this wonderful print by the late great Inuit artist Kananginak Pootoogook called "The First Tourist."
I love Morandi’s still lifes and John Berger’s observation that “One suspects that the bottles only contain a little water for sprinkling on the floor or eau-de-cologne for cooling the forehead—certainly nothing as strong as wine.“
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I love Morandi’s still lifes and John Berger’s observation that “One suspects that the bottles only contain a little water for sprinkling on the floor or eau-de-cologne for cooling the forehead—certainly nothing as strong as wine.“
A Wari drum from Peru, used between 500-800 CE; old instruments always fascinate me when they are played and brought to life with sound that bridges ancestral time and the present.
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A Wari drum from Peru, used between 500-800 CE; old instruments always fascinate me when they are played and brought to life with sound that bridges ancestral time and the present.
This is almost as beautiful as one of the poems Anne Carson read
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This is almost as beautiful as one of the poems Anne Carson read
Anne Carson. I kept thinking of her line, “Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Anne Carson. I kept thinking of her line, “Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.”
A monumental mosaic by Nick Cave (the American artist) called “Let me kindly introduce myself. They call me MC Prince Brighton” (2025) in the entrance to the new Princeton Art Museum.
November 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A monumental mosaic by Nick Cave (the American artist) called “Let me kindly introduce myself. They call me MC Prince Brighton” (2025) in the entrance to the new Princeton Art Museum.