Competing Sovereignties: Indigeneity and the Visual Culture of Catholic Colonization at the 1925 Pontifical Missionary Exhibition

Authors

Gloria BellFollow

DOI

10.32436/2475-6423.1054

Abstract

Through an analysis of Catholic colonial cum missionary imagery, First Nations artwork, missionary accounts and archival fragments, this article examines the competing sovereignties of Indigeneity and Papal visual culture through the case study of the 1925 Pontifical Missionary Exhibition at the Vatican.

Recommended Citation

Bell, Gloria (2019) "Competing Sovereignties: Indigeneity and the Visual Culture of Catholic Colonization at the 1925 Pontifical Missionary Exhibition," Journal of Global Catholicism: Vol. 3: Iss. 2, Article 3.
DOI: 10.32436/2475-6423.1054
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/jgc/vol3/iss2/3