23 English eng Dippold, Steffi Contributor <p data-start="27" data-end="305"><em data-start="27" data-end="103" style="">That Marooned Thing: Adoptive Narratives for a Haudenosaunee Purging Stick</em> by <span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline" style="">Steffi Dippold</span> studies a Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) purging stick — one of the earliest Indigenous North American objects collected by the <span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline" style="">British Museum</span>. The article investigates how an Indigenous artifact became separated from its original cultural context through colonial collection and museum archiving. Because official records about the object are incomplete and biased, Dippold uses what she calls <span data-start="558" data-end="583" style="">“adoptive narratives”</span> — speculative and interdisciplinary interpretations built from colonial travel writings, medical accounts, museum records, and Indigenous knowledge.</p> University of North Carolina Press 2020 pdf ISSN 0012-8163 American Literature That Marooned Thing: Adoptive Narratives for a Haudenosaunee Purging Stick mixed material University of North Carolina Press