Material Culture

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2018.

Focuses on proposed British Columbia legislation with respect to disputes over ownership of Aboriginal cultural property.

Examines garments belonging to the Miami who live in Indiana. Includes photographs.

Reviews the exhibition initiated by Aboriginals and mounted at the British Museum. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.

Analyzes the sociopolitical implications of disinterring bodies in order to put them on display, and discusses the responses of various writers to such issues. The article includes a comparison of display cases in museums, that house Native American bones, to that of zoos.

Book review of: The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections edited by Nicolas Peterson, Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby. Review located by scrolling to page 204.

Museum Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massey University, 2003.

Book review of: Material Culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi by James W. Vanstone.

Art Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2000.

Book review of: Memory and Vision by Emma Hansen.

Book review of: Modern Alaskan Native Material Culture edited by Wendell Oswalt.

Looks at the influences of state ideologies in the policies and practices of a provincial museum.

Book review of: Museum Pieces by Ruth B. Phillips.

Discusses misuse of artifacts, development of law pertaining to cultural objects which have been sold, stolen or excavated, and dealing with the issue of repatriation.

Museum Studies Thesis (M.A.)--San Francisco State University, 2018.

Looks at how new fabrics and beads were used in trade and the integration of new goods into everyday life.

Describes the evolution of the Native Youth Program, some of the challenges and benefits associated with it, and the applicability of similar projects in schools.

Overview of the material from the INDIANacts conference discussing various themes related to Aboriginal performance art.

Describes collection of Plains Indians art at the Joslyn Art Museum, the University of Nebraska State Museum and the Nebraska History museum.

Presents digitized images and lesson plans to enhance teaching and learning about the Cree people and their cultural traditions.

Book review of: Netsilik Eskimo Material Culture: The Roald Amundsen Collection from King William Island by J. Garth Taylor.

Curator at the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology describes the process of acquiring the SDDLNEWHALA bowl, on behalf of the Saanich Native Heritage Society, in order to prevent its exportation to the US.

Argues that museum displays offer selective interpretations of the past and tend to present a biased perspective. Discusses how Aboriginal peoples are demanding a more active role in the curatorial process.

Discusses Aboriginal peoples claim for the right to define their histories and culture and how this will impact anthropology museums.

Author examines if/how the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, DC differs from its predecessor the Museum of the American Indian (MAI) in New York City.

Examines the pain and rage in the performances of Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun work.

2nd edition.

Book review of: Nunivak Island Eskimo (Yuit) Technology and Material Culture by James W. VanStone.

Book review of: Nuussuarmiut - Hunting Families on the Big Headland by Keld Hansen.

Looks at examples of cultural property collected by anthropologists from the North Pacific in the late19th century. Chapter in book: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.

Investigates contemporary issues and reasons surrounding displaced Aboriginal material culture and future exhibition and collecting procedures. Scroll down to page 11 to read article.

Traces the history of a one-hundred-year-old caribou skin men's dancing garment (kapitaq) from the moment the caribou was killed, through construction of the garment by an Inuinnait woman, its acquisition by the museum, loan to Juliette Gaultier de la Verendrye for use in her stage performances, and finally back to the museum's cold storage. History research essay towards a Master of Arts.

Review of exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center 2011.

Article discusses the collections of Inuit artifacts and remains being held in European museums including the nature and provenance of the items.

Book review of: Ochre and Rust by Philip Jones. Review located by scrolling to 270.

Describes the designs found in fragments of ancient nobility garments.

Discusses how respectful collaborations are required to provide digital access to Indigenous materials. Chapter in Preserving Aboriginal Heritage: Technical and Traditional Approaches edited by Carole Dignard, Kate Helwig, Janet Masory Kathy Nanowin, and Thomas Stone. To view article scroll down to page 133 (159).

Discusses repatriation of Native American art objects owned by institutions as well as how art objects are displayed and acquired by museums.

Book review of: Out of the North by Barbara A. Hail and Kate C.Duncan.

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.

Discusses the duel challenge of photographing Zuni religious ceremonies and how old photos now pose a new set of challenges to museums and archives, namely accessibility, privacy, and artist/owner rights.

Discusses straight up style bonnets as well as sloped warbonnets.

Photographs and descriptions of works shown in exhibit in Kansas City.