Material Culture

Discusses the worth of these rare and valuable dresses.

Article seeks to illustrate the complexity of the ownership issue and urges governments and museums to reevaluate perceived rights to cultural property.

Looks at the E-Humanity web portal, which allows users to access photographs and descriptions of more than 70,000 artifacts.

Discusses issues surrounding objects which are valued as "art" by Western collectors as opposed to their contextual value to those who produce them.

Chapter 10 in: How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture edited by Bart Beaty, Derek Briton, Gloria Filax, Rebecca Sullivan. Discussion of the exhibition After the Spirit Sang and the ensuing boycott and controversy. Go to page 217 to read the chapter.

Website presents interpretation of materials, techniques, cultural meanings, history and artistry of objects from the western arctic and subarctic collections of the National Museum of Natural History. Browse interactive maps of peoples of Alaska and Northeast Siberia and map with object category linked to themes on ceremony, community and environment.

Curator's essay discusses provenance of items in the exhibition.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 25, (pp289-414).

Review of the exhibition catalogue written by Ingo Hessel. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 32

Museum Professions Thesis (M.A.)--Seton Hall University, 2010.

Fine Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1993.

Discusses various concepts of artistic expression in Aboriginal performance art.

Explores changing factors influencing traditional conservation methods and the role of conservation as it relates to material culture of Native Americans.

Presentations on collaborative research: Part 1: Research in Museums and it’s Contribution to Native Communities by Pat Courtney Gold. Part 2: Remembering Heritage Through the Arts in Alaska's Communities by Nadia Jackinsky Sethi. Part 3: G̱a̱lg̱a̱poła (Working Together) – A Collaborative Reframing of Kwakiutl Film and Audio Recordings with Franz Boas by Kathryn Bunn Marcuse, Kaleb Child, Coreen Child and Tom Child. Duration: 2:02:05

Book review of: Athapaskan Clothing and Related Objects in the Collections of Field Museum of Natural History

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.

Essay discusses Trevino Brings Plenty’s poem "Little, Cultural, Teapot Curio Exposes People" and its relationship to the object it is about, the museum that holds the object, and the social and cultural issue surrounding Indigenous materials in colonial museums.

[Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2003.

Presents the idea "that the life of an object continues beyond its original purpose of creation" with reference to a group of photographs.

Organized by articles, conference papers, organizations' publications, and information on legislation and case law. International in scope. Revised version.

Website contains links to Virtual Village Project, online exhibits, information on canoes, totem poles, and architecture, and a collection of over 60 pages of images.

Website dedicating to capturing Canadian stories in artifacts. Biography of Angelique Merasty and photographs of her birch bark biting artwork.

Uses the the sacred costume as an example of attitudes toward the acquisition and presentation of material culture; discusses the purchase of the clothing in relation to events taking place in Canada in the 1870s and traces changes in the museum's curatorial practices as demonstrated by its placement in the museum's collection.

Describes process involving elders, as professional consultants, to review and assess collections of material culture held by the Glenbow Museum.

Book review of Collections and Objections: Aboriginal Material Culture in Southern Ontario by Michelle A. Hamilton.

Review of: The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First People by Julia D. Harrison, co-ordinating curator, with Ted J. Brasser, Bernadette Driscoll, Ruth B. Phillips, Martine J. Reid, Judy Thompson, and Ruth Holmes Whitehead, editors.

Reviews Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to p. 130.

Book review of: Bridging the Divide by Caroline Phillips and Harry Allen. Scroll down to page 139 to read review.

Discusses how Adrian Stimson's anti-colonial, gender-bending persona is used to expose cultural and societal truths.

Uses the example of the material culture of contemporary powwow in discussion of culture-based responses to objects made in the past and the present.

Excerpt from a conversation between the authors about the exhibition c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city. Discussion includes exhibit process and impact, and the role of museums in supporting and consulting with Indigenous communities,

Discusses the history of the organization, members' involvement in documentation, and influence on collections use.

Fine Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2001.

Discusses five features of the Act: the establishment of a Export Control List, provision for loans and grants to institutions to purchase items that cannot be exported, establishment of a review board dealing with applications for export permits and certification of property for income tax purposes, establish income tax incentives for donation or sales of objects to designated institutions, and procedures for recovery of property which has been illegally exported.

Fine Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1991.

Reprint with new introduction. Originally published: Douglas & McIntyre, 1985.

Looks at the repatriation process of Canadian museums and asks 'what information do First Nations individuals and communities need to successfully participate in this process?'

First part in series on Cheyenne use of the Thunderbird symbol in the beadwork of men's moccasins. Contains photographs of moccasins from the Bata Shoe Museum, displaying typical toe designs and other examples of Thunderbird use.

Book review of: Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlach edited by Aldona Jonaitis.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1972.

Reviews of two books: Yu'pik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin: Fieldwork Turned on Its Head by Ann Fienup-Rirodan. Ciuliamta Akluit: Things of Our Ancestors by Marie Mead and Ann Fienup-Rirodan.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1998.

Book review of: Collections and Objections by Michelle A. Hamilton.

Provides overview of project and its contribution to the deliberate shift to a post-colonial mode of curation and community-centred research process.

Case study of an Exhibition that ran from 1876 through until the 1910.

Talks about the ethnographic exhibition, Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch and the interpretive narratives.

Explores how ethnographic material can suggest connections between Onkwehonwe objects, traditions and knowledge.

Looks at museum collections in Stockholm, Sweden focusing on the work by Ernst Manker curator of the Lapp Department.