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Congo 1904-07. Vol 1. Binoc 161.Tusks. Many people today would find this picture deplorable because of its anti-conservation message, but it is important to remember that peoples attitudes to conservation were by and large very different at the beginning of this century than today. Visitors to the museum often find the content somewhat alarming, seeing it as a celebration of hunting, and a glorification of the brutal death of animals. Often people take it very much out of context, forgetting that it is a well preserved reminder of how museums were, it is a museum of a museum. The Powell-Cotton museum represents an ethnological and natural science interpretation from another era. It shows not only images of Africa, but by its presentation and visual content is representative of a specific perspective from our own culture. |
