Journal of the American Institute For Conservation, vol. 34, no. 3, Autumn-Winter, 1995, pp. 187-193
Description
Explores changing factors influencing traditional conservation methods and the role of conservation as it relates to material culture of Native Americans.
Part I: Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diana Henry
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [5]-11
Description
Member of the Saanich Native Heritage Society describes efforts to prevent the sale of an ancient West Coast Saanich bowl to an American dealer, and to have this cultural property returned to their people.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 130-132
Description
Reviews Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to p. 130.
Part IV: International Repatriation and Protection of Cultural Property
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David A. Walden
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [203]-216
Description
Discusses five features of the Act: the establishment of a Export Control List, provision for loans and grants to institutions to purchase items that cannot be exported, establishment of a review board dealing with applications for export permits and certification of property for income tax purposes, establish income tax incentives for donation or sales of objects to designated institutions, and procedures for recovery of property which has been illegally exported.
Part III: Repatriation and Protection of First Nations Culture in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
gii-dahl-guud-sliiaay
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [183]-201
Description
Discusses First Nations' conceptions of cultural property and argues, by using Haida Gwaii examples, that objects should be placed in centres managed and controlled by First Nations, not residing in museums.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 9, October 2011, p. 18, 19
Description
Looks at a collection of Métis artifacts collected by a Saskatoon couple, with a keen interest in history, relating to the 1885 Resistance and Métis and First Nations people.
Article located by scrolling to page 18 and 19.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 19, no. 2, Fall, 1995, pp. 78-90
Description
Critically addresses the efforts of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, with the intent of placing it within the larger cultural discourse on museums, in regard to representations of cultures and their objects.
Douglas Cardinal talks about the issues that arose during construction of the building and the events which ultimately led to termination of his participation in the project.
Duration: 15:59.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 4, April 2011, pp. 1-2
Description
Description of a travelling art exhibit, The Recognition of Place: Strength & Endurance of Aboriginal Women, which features eight female leaders, some posthumously.
Article found on pages 1-2.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 26-36
Description
Review of Exhibition and book:
Isumavut: The Artistic Expression of Nine Cape Dorset Women at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, October 6, 1994 to March 3, 1996.
Inuit Women Artists: Voice From Cape Dorset edited by Odette Leroux, Marion E. Jackson, and Minnie Aodla Freeman.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.
Website contains links, some with access to the full text of presentations, from a conference which explores intellectual thought and cultural development of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Many of the presenters were Canadian.
Discussion about the controversial series of paintings entitled The Forgotten by Pamela Masik which portrayed the sixty-nine missing and murdered women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The exhibition to be held at the Museum of Anthropology was cancelled due to protests.
Duration: 31:50.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 40-41
Description
Exhibition review at the Royal Ontario Museum, Gallery of Indigenous Peoples, Toronto, Ontario, 1995.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 40.
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Kevin Gover
Tim Johnson
John Haworth
Cécile R. Ganteaume ... [et al.]
Description
Comments on a personal collection of over 800,000 pieces, from throughout ten regions of the Americas, installed in the National Museum of the American Indian.
Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Darcy N. Edgar
Robert K. Paterson
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [1]-2
Description
Introduction to special issue consisting of papers delivered at a conference held May 20-21, 1994 entitled Material Culture in Flux--Repatriation of Cultural Property.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, Summer, 2011, pp. 37-39
Description
Reviews exhibition catalogue Inuit Prints by Norman Vorano, with Asato Ikeda, Ming Tiampo, and Kananginak Pootoogook.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review scroll to p. 37.