Using examples taken from images housed in the Anthropology Section of the Museum, argues that depending upon the photographer's motivations, they may portray an accurate record of Aboriginal culture or a skewed, Eurocentric viewpoint.
Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs
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Richard Daly
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Anthropologist who was one of the expert witnesses in the land rights case involving the validity of oral history discusses the contesting viewpoints about it.
Excerpt from Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs.
Material Culture Review, vol. 61, Spring, 2005, pp. 52-61
Description
Looks at styles, patterns, and designs of headgrear collected by James Teit for Franz Boas and the American Museum of Natural History. Includes photographs.
Professional Geographer, vol. 54, no. 2, May 2002, pp. 140-157
Description
Argues that although portrayed as exclusively "hunter-fisher-gatherers", there is ample evidence that the peoples of this region also created gardens of edible plants using sophisticated methods. Author further argues that this portrayal was used to rationalize dispossession of traditional territories.
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 118, no. 470, Fall, 2005
Description
Viewpoint of the author is to infuse new life into a British Columbia historiography that until now has not paid enough attention to Aboriginal interpretations of the past.