Museum Anthropology, vol. 29, no. 1, March 2006, pp. 20-43
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Discusses role the noted carver and restorer of totem poles played in the in the acquisition of objects for its collection at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia.
Site contains links to Indigenous historical and contemporary material drawn from the Canadian Museum of Civilization's artifact and archival collections including thousands of photographs.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, 2006, pp. 511-542
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Questions to what extent is and was the (National) Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) collection unique and 'new' in comparison to other Indigenous collections.
Arctic, vol. 59, no. 4, December 2006, pp. 351-360
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Discusses the significance of eight wooden plaques in the MacFarlane collection at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and how they represent the earliest surviving Inuvialuit graphic art.
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 31, no. 1, [Special Issue: Culture, Heritage, and Art], 2006, pp. 197-214
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Discusses the challenges associated with displaying historical objects in a gallery, such as the presentation of works from a non-Indigenous conception of artistic value.
Traces changes in Western attitudes toward the classification of objects and the subsequent evolution of the terminology used to refer to them.
Chapter 17 from Handbook of Material Culture edited by Chris Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Mike Rowlands and Patricia Spyer.
Summary of the two days of conference events and sessions in regards to contributions made by Aboriginal curators impacting Aboriginal arts development.