Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics and Museum Display
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Author/Creator
James Clifford
Description
Describes and compares the treatment of art in the Royal British Columbia Museum, U'mista Cultural Centre, Kwagiulth Museum and Cultural Centre, and University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology.
Chapter fourteen from Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics of Museum Display edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine.
Indian dancers from St. Mary's School poses in front of the stage in the Pensioners and Pioneers Pavilion where they had performed at a potluck supper held by the association's member. The hoop dancers wear matching blue shirts. The girl in the red dress performed a shawl dance.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. [8]-15
Description
Overview of recent changes to Inuit Art scene including a focus on market oriented production and a professional approach by the artists which incorporates new media and subject matter.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Guide to accompany film, Kwa'nu'te': Micmac and Maliseet Artists. Contains questions for discussion, section on the Micmac Petroglyph's, importance of spiritual influence and artists of Native ancestry.
Brief history and information about role of master of ceremonies, arena director, Powwow Princess, singers and drummers, as well as traditional rituals, dance styles and their accompanying regalia, daily sequence of events and etiquette.
Images of the Prairie North at the Turn of the Century
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Frank J.P Crean
Native Studies Review , vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 103-127
Description
Archival black and white photographs taken between 1908 and 1909 during the Frank J. Crean exploration expedition ranging from the Saskatchewan River valley to the Athabaska River and Portage la Loche in the east.
The Saint Louis Art Museum Bulletin, vol. 20, no. 1, New Series, Summer, 1991, pp. 1-47
Description
Discusses the environmental aspects influencing art in the following regions: Northwest Coast of Canada and Alaska, California, the Southwest, Plains and Eastern Woodlands.
File contains one negative showing a Pow Wow dancer at the small world Day Care Co-op clad in traditional dress and speaking with children, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, May 8, 1991.
Four slides of a man and children at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.
Four slides of a two women and a child with an upside down Canadian flag at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.
A slide of two boys holding placards reading "Is Canada a Democracy?" and "Mulroney Balogna Blatant Racism" at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.
A slide of male and female protestors, one with a drum, at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 4, Spring, 1991, pp. 19-21
Description
Review of exhibition curated by Marie Routledge with work from 1960's to 1980's by Baker Lake's best known and innovative artists.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 19.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1991, pp. 45-88
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review, and Selected Bibliography by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
Wolverine Myths and Visions: Dene Traditions from Northern Alberta by Dene Wodih Society
California Indian Nights by Edward W. Gifford and Gwendoline Harris Block
Bighorse the Warrior by Tiana Bighorse and edited by Noël Bennett
Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folk Tales Retold by Charles A.
File contains a series of negatives from a meeting between Roland Crowe and Civic Officials in Prince Albert. The officials are posing for a portrait in all three. Crowe was Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations at the time, and is on the far left of the negatives. The individual on the far right of all three negatives is Gordon Kirkby, mayor of Prince Albert.
Exhibition mounted by the Saskatchewan Arts Board. Includes two essays, a list of works and artist's statements, biographies and a digital re-creation of the exhibition.
Artists exhibited: Richard Agecoutay, Bob Boyer, Dennis Bruce, S. Ruth Cuthand, Sherry Farrell, Ray Keighley, Ann McLean, Janice M. Morin, Sheila Orr, Edward Poitras, Celina Ritter, Kathleen Wasacase-Janzen, Jerry Whitehead.
File contains 17 negatives showing Tawney Ahdeman of Prince Albert off posing for a portrait before leaving for an Indian Princess Pageant, on August 8, 1991.