The “Idiot Sticks”: Kwakwaka'wakw Carving and Cultural Resistance in Commercial Art Production on the Northwest Coast
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack Davy
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 27-46
Description
Explores the subversive and satirical practice of creating souvenirs for settler-tourists arguing that the small totem poles carved as keepsakes were in fact a form of resistance to settler colonialism.