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[Coast Salish Art in the 21st Century]

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Shaun Peterson
Heather Johnson-Jock
lessLIE
Luke Marston
Danielle Morsette
Description
Five panelists discuss their artistic practice and how their culture influences their work. Duration: 1:31:47.
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Collecting Contemporary Native Arts in the Boreal Forest of Western Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William A. Tracy
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 28, no. 1, Art and Material Culture of the North American Subarctic and Adjacent Regions, 1991, pp. 101-109
Description
Discusses factors that influence value and output such as provenance, market location, and producer-collector (consumer) interactions.
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Consultation of the Muses

Theses
Author/Creator
Mariangela Provezi
Description
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Leiden, 2012.
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Creating a Market for Inuit Art: 1949-1967

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Susan Rowley
Description
Speaker uses examples from the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia to illustrate talk which focuses on federal government's involvement in creation and marketing of Inuit art. Duration: 1:13:11.
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Dempsey Bob

Web Sites » Personal
Author/Creator
Dempsey Bob
Description
Commercial site of the Tlingit artist. Includes links to the artist's statement, information selected pieces, exhibitions, bibliography of locations of artworks as well as items for sale.
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Desert Crafts: Anangu Maruku Punu

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John Rudder
Aboriginal History, vol. 17, 1993, pp. 163-164
Description
Book review of: Desert Crafts by Jennifer Isaacs. Review located by scrolling to page 163.
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Dugout Canoe Information

Documents & Presentations
Description
This file contains information relating to the dugout canoe located in the Prince Albert Historical Society Museum, Prince Albert, SK. Notes describing the construction are attributed to Dan Ellison Jr. and an unknown person. Also included are notes relating to Big Bear’s Winchester rifle, made in 1880 and donated to the Museum in 1933 by Fred McFadden.
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Dugout Canoe Photographs

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Benson
Jamie (photographer)
Description
The last two images showing two different angles of the dugout canoe that is on display at the Prince Albert Historical Society Museum. The first of the three images is the informational sign.
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Elder's Perspective: Mariano Aupliaarjuk

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Janet McGrath
Inuktitut, no. 92, 2002, pp. 54-[?]
Description
Biography about a keeper of Inuit Qaujimanituqangit (IQ, Inuit Traditional Knowledge and Wisdom).
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Eskimo Art

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diamond Jenness
Geographical Review, vol. 12, no. 2, April 1922, pp. 161-174
Description
Comments on differences in artistic ability depending on geographical location.
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Eskimo Arts and Crafts

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Laura Boulton
Description

Documentary illustrates traditional leatherwork, carving, and the construction of a kayak. 

Duration: 21:07.

Please note that language used reflects time in which film was produced (1943).

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Eskimo Carving

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Linda Holoboff
Description
Four images (0ne scanned here) of two men looking at an Eskimo carving in Saskatoon.
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Eskimo Soapstone Carvings

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
National Museums of Canada (photographer)
Description
Two carvings representing a shaman with a drum and a walking man. Location unknown.
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The Exploration of Northwest Coast Indian Art, 1774-2003

Alternate Title
[Contemporary Issues in Northwest Coast Native American Art]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Bill Holm
Description
Lecturer discusses early collectors and the objects they acquired, and his personal experiences with the region's culture. Duration: 47:35.
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First Nations Dolls

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation
Description
Brief description and four pictures. Site is from Timeless Treasures: The Story of Dolls in Canada
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Frederick Alexcee's Entangled Gazes

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kaitlin McCormick
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 246-264
Description
Article discusses Tsimshian artist Frederick Alexcee (1853–1939) work, the way it represented his community of Lax Kw'alaams (Fort/Port Simpson) in the 1800s and 1900s, and the implications of that narrative.
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Haida Art: Northern Villages: Part 1

Alternate Title
Distinctive Art of Haida Villages: The Northern Villages
Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Future Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
George MacDonald
Description
Discusses the architecture of houses and design styles of totems poles in the villages of Kaigani, Klinkwan, Kassan. Part 1: Duration: 34:20. Access to Part 2.
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Haida Art: Southern Villages [Part 1 and Part 2]

Alternate Title
Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Future Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
George MacDonald
Description
Discusses the architecture of houses and design style of totem Poles in the villages of Skidegate, Xaina, Skedans, Tanu, Skungwai and Chaatl Haida. Part 1 duration: 25:08. Part 2 duration: 32:08.
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Haida Glee: Transitions in Northwest Coast Art

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robin Laurence
Border Crossings, vol. 25, no. 4, November 2006, pp. 66-74
Description
Reviews of: Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art, Past to Present: Important Works for the First Peoples of the Northwest Coast, and Two Perspectives: Visions of Haida Gwaii.
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Hei Tiki and Issues of Representation Within Contemporary Māori Arts

Alternate Title
Hei Tiki and Issues of Representation Within Contemporary Maori Arts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pania Waaka
MAI Review, no. 1, 2007, pp. 1-17
Description
Looks at the guiding influences of Māori specialists in the production of hei tiki, an Indigenous iconographic form.
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Homecoming for the Totem Poles

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen Kinzer
UNESCO Courier, vol. 54, no. 4, April 2001, pp. 28-29
Description
Law change in United States provides for artifacts to be returned by museums and federal agencies to their original tribal owners. Entire issue on one pdf to access article scroll to p. 28.
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Hydro-Quebec Buys Inuit Art

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rosa Harris-Adler
Inuktitut, no. 98, Fall, 2005, pp. 10-11
Description
Pledge of $5 million to acquire over 2,500 pieces of Inuit art including sculpture, painting and other works.
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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.
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Indian Arts Research Centre

Alternate Title
IARC
Web Sites » Organizations
Description
Web page contains links to short artist biographies and a sample of the collection including basketry, jewelry, carved figures, paints, and pottery textiles.
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Indian Notes [Vol. 6, no. 4, October, 1929]

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marshall H. Saville
F. W. Hodge
W. C. Orchard
Melvin R. Gilmore
Joseph Keppler
Ruth Gaines
Description
Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Articles on various topics including data on votive axes from ancient Mexico and Mohawk burden-straps.
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Indian Notes [Vol. 8, no. 4, Fall, 1972]

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Carla O'Rorke
M.R. Harrington
Alfredo E. Figueredo]
Description
Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Articles on various topics including catlinite pipes and buffalo medicine bundles.
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Indian Notes [Vol. 9, no. 2, Spring, 1973]

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
William F. Stiles
Michael Sellon
Description
Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Articles on various topics including personal observations on the Mikasuki and a display of miniatures.
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