... The third chapter, focuses on missionary viewpoints. Dioramas and games at the Vatican Missionary Exposition, created by missionaries, constitute the visual evidence of the exposition's attempt to present itself as a “window on the world.” However, as the chapter argues, the exposition...

... The second chapter contends that the arrangement and interpretation of Indigenous arts and material culture at the Vatican Missionary Exposition and in its official magazine, the Rivista Illustrata, served the goal of rendering Indigenous nations as static. It provides a detailed discussion...

... The fourth chapter considers how cultural belongings made using Indigenous methods and hands resonate beyond the colonial space of the Vatican Museums. Although missionaries and pope Pius XI considered them as silent markers of missionary progress because of their removal from Indigenous...