一家博物馆获得了 10 万英镑拨款，以重新审视其与一个非洲社区的关联，此举正值一场要求赔偿的运动期间。
A museum has received a £100,000 grant to revisit its links with an African community amid a campaign for reparations.
肯达尔博物馆陈列着一批来自肯尼亚西部的狩猎战利品，由英国陆军军官埃德加·加斯顿·哈里森上校捐赠，他在 1895 年至 1905 年间曾在当地服役。
Kendal Museum features a display of hunting trophies from western Kenya donated by Colonel Edgar Garston Harrison, a British Army officer who served there between 1895 and 1905.
社会学家乔·里格比博士的研究发现了该藏品与肯尼亚南迪社区发起的一场赔偿运动之间的联系。里格比是坎布里亚郡社会与环境历史专家。
Research from sociologist Dr Joe Rigby, an expert in the social and environmental history of Cumbria, discovered links between the collection and a campaign for reparations from the Nandi community in Kenya.
根据该拨款设立的项目介绍，南迪社区曾被哈里森率领的部队从约 1235 平方英里（3200 平方公里）的土地上“清除”，部队摧毁了他们的农作物和房屋，并掠夺了牲畜。
According to the project set up with the grant, the Nandi community was "cleared" from about 1,235 sq miles (3,200 sq km) by Harrison's troops, who destroyed their crops, homes and seized livestock.
这笔拨款资助了一个为期两年的项目，名为“从肯尼亚到肯达尔再回肯尼亚：通过肯达尔博物馆的自然与社会历史藏品重新连接社区”。
The grant is funding the two-year project called "From Kenya to Kendal and back again: reconnecting communities through Kendal Museum's natural and social history collection".
在肯达尔长大、现任切斯特大学讲师的里格比表示，他正与肯达尔博物馆和南迪社区成员合作，“重述这批藏品的故事，并探索肯达尔与南迪的共同历史”。“殖民主义的暴力”哈里森曾资助扩建肯达尔博物馆以安置其藏品，数十年来博物馆将他呈现为“恩人”。
Rigby, who grew up in Kendal and is a lecturer at the University of Chester, said he was working with Kendal Museum and Nandi community members "to retell the story of this collection, and to explore the shared history of Kendal and Nandi". 'Violence of colonialism' Harrison had funded an extension to Kendal Museum to house his collection and the museum presented him as a "benefactor" for decades.
但该项目指出，研究显示哈里森的生平及其藏品“与殖民主义的暴力深度纠缠”。
But the project said research showed Harrison's life and collection were "deeply entangled with the violence of colonialism".
拥有该藏品的西摩兰和弗内斯郡议会表示，该项目将把两个社区聚集在一起，“研究并诠释与他们交织历史相关的藏品”。随后，他们将与博物馆合作，帮助塑造这些藏品未来的呈现方式。
Westmorland and Furness Council, which owns the collection, said the project would bring the two communities together "to research and interpret the collections connected to their intertwined histories". They would then work with the museum to help shape how they are represented in the future.
这家由自由民主党主导的当局表示，还将探索文化交流机会，其中一个想法是邀请南迪社区的跑步爱好者参加坎布里亚郡的山地越野赛。“失去与痛苦”该项目将由坎布里亚发展教育中心和南迪-肯达尔协会共同实施。
The Lib-dem led authority said cultural exchange opportunities would also be explored, with one idea being to invite keen runners from the Nandi community to a fell race in Cumbria. 'Loss and pain' The project will be delivered by the Cumbria Development Education Centre and the Nandi-Kendal Association.
该协会协调员基尼亚戈·塞罗内是居住在英国的南迪社区成员，他说：“近一个世纪以来，哈里森的‘狩猎战利品’一直在肯达尔向公众展示，却从未提及哈里森对南迪人的所作所为。
Coordinator of the association, Kinyango Seroney, who is a member of the Nandi community living in the UK, said: "For the best part of a century Harrison's 'hunting trophies' have been on display to the people of Kendal, but without mention of Harrison's actions against the Nandi.
“在哈里森领导的行动之后，南迪人被赶出家园，遭受了巨大的损失和痛苦。” 去年，该委员会批准了一项政策，规定如果收到归还文化物品的请求，将如何处理。
"After the operation led by Harrison, the Nandi were pushed out of their homelands and suffered great loss and pain." Last year, the council approved a policy setting out how it would deal with a request to return cultural objects, should one be submitted.
该机构表示，该项目并非围绕“藏品的任何预设结果”设计，未来对藏品的诠释决定将由“与之联系最紧密的人”提供参考。
The authority said the project was not designed around "any predetermined outcome for the collection" and decisions on its future interpretations would be informed by "those most closely connected to them".
文化事务内阁成员海伦·查菲说：“该项目旨在将人们聚集在一起探索历史、建立新关系，并确保更广泛的声音有助于塑造我们对藏品的理解和诠释。” 请在 X、Facebook、Nextdoor 和 Instagram 上关注 BBC 坎布里亚，并在 BBC Sounds 收听坎布里亚广播电台。
Cabinet member for culture Helen Chaffey said: "The project is about bringing people together to explore history, build new relationships and ensure that a wider range of voices help shape how our collections are understood and interpreted." Follow BBC Cumbria on X, external, Facebook, external, Nextdoor and Instagram, external and listen to Radio Cumbria on BBC Sounds.