Repatriation of Chief Crowfoot's Regalia to the Siksika Nation – a conservator's involvement *
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Chief Crowfoot’s regalia was repatriated to the Siksika Nation, Blackfoot Confederacy, from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Exeter. The process began as part of the Blackfoot Collections in UK Museums Network, with a 2013 Blackfoot delegation visit leading to the 2022 repatriation of Isapo-muxika’s (Chief Crowfoot’s) regalia. The collection obtained by Cecil Denny, an officer in Canada’s North West Mounted Police, at the 1877 signing of Treaty 7, was acquired by RAMM from Denny’s sister in 1904. The conservator’s role was to support the Blackfoot delegation visit (2013) and prepare the collection for repatriation. It comprises Isapo-muxika’s shirt, leggings, knife, necklace, sacred bundles, bow, bow case, quiver, horsewhips, and pouches. This involved making the regalia accessible within the store, engaging with the Blackfoot visitors, preparing the collection for the repatriation visit and transport to the Siksika Nation, and conservation documentation. Through consultation with colleagues and Siksika Elders, the needs of the regalia were established, regarding which objects should be packed together, taboos about handling the sacred material, and how each piece should be wrapped in cloth rather than tissue.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.031 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".