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.
Discusses the difficulties involved in attributing unsigned works to the artist.
Excerpt from Charles Edenshaw curated by Robin K. Wright and Daina Augaitis.
Part III: Repatriation and Protection of First Nations Culture in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
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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.
Topics include background and goals of the exhibition, choice of works, and international scope of artists represented. It featured 150 works by over 80 artists from 16 countries and was mounted at the National Gallery of Canada from May 17 to September 2, 2013.
Focuses on two objects from the exhibition (Wasco argillite platter and totem pole) to demonstrate the artist's execution of two-dimensional and three-dimensional design.
Excerpt from Charles Edenshaw curated by Robin K. Wright and Daina Augaitis.
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.
Four interviewees discuss Isabel Rorick's weaving, the argillite platters, the artist's place in the history of art in British Columbia, and his influence one descendant's work.
Excerpt from Charles Edenshaw curated by Robin K. Wright and Daina Augaitis.
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.