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Ancient America: following the Thunderbird
Well-known for his television programmes on the archaeology of South America, curator Dr Jago Cooper now focuses on the ancient cultures of the northwest coast of North America in his new exhibition at the British Museum, as he tells Diana Bentley
Jago Cooper’s engaging presence will be familiar to any television viewer who has enjoyed his BBC Four series on the peoples of South and Central America and Easter Island. But his remit as Curator of the Americas at the British Museum also covers the northwest coast of North America and soon visitors to the British Museum will be able to see some of the intriguing objects made by the indigenous peoples of that region. Entitled Where the Thunderbird Lives: Cultural Resilience on the Northwest Coast of North America, the exhibition, which opens on 23 February, is curated by Dr Cooper and his colleague Dr Amber Lincoln.
Apart from the fascination this culturally rich region holds for arch
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