of knowledge that we're represented in their collections so we can see this in the writings of jane johnston schoolcraft. who was a native american poet who actually was married to a bureau of indian affairs agent and they they collaborated together in in his case. he appropriated many of her writings as part of a larger project on early anthropology in the united states and we can see in her writings though how she's reflecting on the relationship between white and indigenous forms of knowledge making and we can also see figures like the black abolitionist and activist william wells brown who was interpreting works of classical sculpture in the galleries of the british museum and really staking a claim to his right to an education and to his own expertise, but we can also see there's like or a white hitchcock who was a really talented artist and natural history illustrator who you know when visiting these collections was was sometimes reflecting on the fact that you know her husband and son were likely to to benefit more from them than she might so count allow us to really trace the the peo