Programs and Event

Sacred Legacy Photo Exhibit

March 24 - April 14, 2008

This year, the U.S. Embassy in conjunction with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports worked on bringing to Brunei a unique piece American history and culture through the Sacred Legacy photo exhibit of Narive Americans.

Approximately 60 print photographs of Native Americans drawn from the work of famed ethnographer Edward Sheriff Curtis was on display at the Brunei Museum starting Monday, March 24th.  The work of Edward Curtis illustrates the broad diversity of North American Indian tribes. Taken from the last years of the 19th century until 1930, the spectacular images show Native American life and culture on the Great Plains, in the Southwest, and on the Northwest Coast, the Plateau and Alaska.

A companion exhibit of photographs by two local groups, the Photographic Society of Brunei and Photographers Association of Brunei was also be on display alongside the Sacred Legacy exhibit.

Members of the public, photography enthusiasts, students, artists were among viewers of the exhibit which was on display for three weeks from March 24th until April 14th before moving to its next destination in Rangoon.  Prior to arriving in Brunei, the exhibit was on a two month tour in East and West Malaysia and has been traveling in the Southeast Asia region since last year.

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