Part I: Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
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Author/Creator
Diana Henry
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [5]-11
Description
Member of the Saanich Native Heritage Society describes efforts to prevent the sale of an ancient West Coast Saanich bowl to an American dealer, and to have this cultural property returned to their people.
Third Text, vol. 27, no. 1, Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology, January 2013, pp. 17-28
Description
Discusses how several Aboriginal artists have incorporated the traditional worldview, in which everything is animate, into their modern works. Highlights Jimmie Durham, Rebecca Belmore, Jolene Rickard, and Will Wilson.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 36, no. 2, September 2013, pp. 113-127
Description
Looks at works by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas who infuses Haida form lines, ideas, and oral histories with Manga, a Japanese genre of cartoon illustration.
Art Journal, vol. 54, no. 3, Rethinking the Introductory Art History Survey, Autumn, 1995, pp. 72-75
Description
Comments how course content is arranged to give the student a multicultural introduction to the art of five cultures; those identified as the major ethnic groups in the United States.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 36, no. 1, April 2013, pp. 18-32
Description
Critiques the two exhibitions Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait and Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska in terms of their success as cross-cultural collaborations.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 36, no. 1, April 2013, pp. 4-17
Description
Examines issues surrounding the controversial series of paintings which depict murdered and missing women (predominately Aboriginal) from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 91, August 2013, pp. 210-218
Description
Two broad themes emerged: factors that limited mobility within neighbourhoods, including perceptions of health/safety threats or barriers, and factors which limited movement in the larger city.
Journal of Material Culture, vol. 18, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 93-116
Description
Looks at artwork made for a specific location and then dismantled and relocated to other areas. Focuses on Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas's site specific artwork in Pedal to the Meddle commissioned for the exhibition, Meddling in the Museum: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. His art uses Haida formlines, ideas and oral history mixed with manga, the Japanese genre of cartoon and comic illustration.