The World Cultures collection at National Museums Northern Ireland is an essential source for the study of Irish collecting in the wider British Empire. The 2022 redisplay of the collection in the Ulster Museum's exhibition, Inclusive Global Histories, is part of a staged engagement with local and source communities. Given the critical importance of the global museum decolonisation work of which the exhibition is an example, a fresh consideration of this ethnographic collection's history is timely. This article reviews the collection within the context of the three museums that have housed it, and investigates how curators within the institution understood, represented and displayed the collection. It does so through a case study of a war canoe (tomako), that was taken from the Solomon Islands, by John Casement, a captain in the Royal Navy, and is the largest and among the most significant items within the collection. The canoe's centrality to the gallery — built around it in 1925 — that now contains Inclusive Global Histories reveals complex social networks between nineteenth- and twentieth-century collectors, curators and photographers, and aids understanding of how global human cultures have been regarded in Northern Ireland's civic life.

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阿尔斯特博物馆收藏的北爱尔兰和所罗门群岛 tomako（独木舟），1898 年至 2023 年

北爱尔兰国家博物馆的世界文化藏品是研究大英帝国爱尔兰收藏的重要来源。 2022 年在阿尔斯特博物馆的展览中重新展示藏品，包容性的全球历史，是与当地和来源社区分阶段参与的一部分。鉴于全球博物馆非殖民化工作的至关重要性（本次展览就是一个例子），对这一民族志藏品的历史进行新的思考是及时的。本文在收藏该藏品的三个博物馆的背景下回顾了这些藏品，并调查了该机构内的策展人如何理解、代表和展示这些藏品。它通过战争独木舟的案例研究来做到这一点（托玛子），由英国皇家海军上尉约翰·凯斯门特 (John Casement) 从所罗门群岛采集，是该系列藏品中最大、最重要的物品之一。独木舟是画廊的中心 - 1925 年围绕它建造 - 现在包含包容性的全球历史揭示了十九世纪和二十世纪收藏家、策展人和摄影师之间复杂的社交网络，并有助于了解北爱尔兰公民生活如何看待全球人类文化。