Distinctive Art of Haida Villages: The Northern Villages
Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Future Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
George MacDonald
Description
Discusses the architecture of houses and design styles of totems poles in the villages of Kaigani, Klinkwan, Kassan.
Part 1: Duration: 34:20.
Access to Part 2.
Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Future Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
George MacDonald
Description
Discusses the architecture of houses and design style of totem Poles in the villages of Skidegate, Xaina, Skedans, Tanu, Skungwai and Chaatl Haida.
Part 1 duration: 25:08.
Part 2 duration: 32:08.
Arbutus Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Focus on Indigenous Governance, 2012, pp. 61-79
Description
Discusses how the works of Shelley Niro, Chris Bose, Dana Claxton, Arthur Renwick, and Terence Houle challenge mainstream society's perceptions of Aboriginals.
[Royal Anthropological Institute of Britain and Ireland
Max Carocci]
Description
Website developed for exhibition of the same name as well as the book launch for Warriors of the Plains: The Arts of Plains Indian Warfare by Max Carocci.
Contains links to exhibition, catalogue, bibliography, videos and information on the book.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 44-46
Description
Presents an outline of the various topics discussed at a conference held at the Museum of Mankind (British Museum), London, in April 1996.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 44.
Canadian Diversity=Diversity&eaactue; canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, p. 42
Description
Brief description of project linking research results of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's Well-Being Index (CBW) to images of living conditions.
Scroll down to page 42 to read article.
Responses focused on body image, experience of loss, and addictive substances. Sample was 20 individuals.
Part of the larger project Iskwewak Miwayawak: Women Feeling Healthy which involved University of Saskatchewan researchers.
Database with a searchable online photograph collection, including by subject, date, location and tribe. The database attempts to provide students, researchers and the general public with direct access to primary material on the Plains Indian cultures.
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Fall, 1992, pp. 66-73
Description
Author comments on the exhibition mounted by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 1992 and issues concerning the Aboriginal artistic community in general, such as being the subject or object, rather than the observer.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 1998, pp. 335-373
Description
Interviews with three visual artists whose work emphasizes cultural meanings within the film and video work by Loretta Todd and photography by Shelley Niro and Patricia Deadman.
Photograph of children playing, with tents in background; taken at Eskimo Point, N.W.T. [NU]. (community's name changed to Arviat in 1989). Title on file: Eskimo Children at Play.
Children exiting tent located next to drying hides; taken at Eskimo Point, N.W.T. [NU] (community's name changed to Arviat in 1989). Title on file: Eskimo Children, Drying Hide.