Material Culture

Describes the concept of rhetorical sovereignty, and looks at the workings and complications of enacting rhetorical sovereignty using the three inaugural exhibits of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).

Article divided into two parts: an overview of the Act and the few reported decisions dealing with it.

Guide developed for individuals and groups requesting return of things such as human remains, funerary and sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony from the collections housed in the National Museum of the American Indian.

Case study of co-operation between the Aboriginal community and an institution which holds an ethnographic artifact with sacred or ceremonial associations. Belts were transported by a conservator, used in ceremonies and returned to the museum.

Integrated Studies Project towards (M.A.)--Athabasca University, 2014.

Shows that the stylistic and representational contrasts in art correspond with the division of the Kwakiutl year based on notions of secular and sacred.

Reviews developments since the release of the Task Force report 2 years earlier and the things still required to be done if the recommendations of the report are to be fulfilled.

Examines three areas for reform: increased Aboriginal involvement, repatriation of artefacts and improved access.

Book review of Taxidermic Signs by Pauline Wakeham. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 137.

Discusses the way museums use media technology and Native American objects to educate and challenge the museum experience.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2009.

Discusses collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak in mounting the exhibit Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People.

Overview of the conference on Aboriginal performance art and issues raised by Aboriginal performance artists.

Discusses how and why museums have focused on Indigenous collections and displays which assign certain stereotypes and misrepresentations of Native American people.

Discusses the Donald Thomson collection which contains artifacts and photographs from the eastern Cape York area.

Studies in Art and Culture Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2010.

Book review of: Thule Pioneers edited by E. Bielawski, Carolynn Kobelka, and Robert R. Janes.

Article explores the community-based practice of creating place-based museums to house the artifacts recovered from archaeological sites in the Oaxaca region of Mexico, argues these institutions validate local knowledges and traditions and function as means to promote education and cultural understanding.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 1994.

Fine Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1970.

Concludes the powerful story of the Haisla and their efforts to repatriate a totem pole after 77 years of being in the Swedish Museum. Accompanying Study Guide. Duration: 24:04.

Film about the attempt to repatriate the G'psgolox totem pole which was stolen, housed in Sweden and claimed to be the property of the Swedish Government. Accompanying Study Guide. Duration: 70:00.

Brief discussion of the changes in art, including the tools and materials used, during a period of great social and cultural upheaval.

Brief discussion of art from the time museums ceased collecting extensively to the present, with some discussion on the prominent artists and their particular art form.

Develops ethical policies and procedures for First Nations' to present their history and culture in conjunction with cultural institutions. 3rd edition.

Book review of: Un Long Chemin Semé d'Objets Cultuels by Marika Moisseeff. Review located by scrolling to page 243.

Book reviews: Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art From the Peabody Essex Museum by John R. Grimes, Christian Feest, and Mary Lou Carran. Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rhinehard Photograph Collection by Simon J. Ortiz.

Book review of: Uncommon Threads by Bruce J. Bourque and Laureen A. LaBar.

Discusses the 13 surviving examples of the glove "gauntlets", their history, characteristics and possible functions.

Article describes the phenomenon of site-looting, or artefact collecting by amateur or hobbyist archeologists; discusses the motivations of the collectors and the effects for the scholarly archeological community.

Book review of catalogue for exhibition of the same name. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 48.

In this conference extract the author explores the different ways that his Haudenosaunee ancestors would have represented their experiences with and perceptions of the first Europeans to arrive in what is now North America.

American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2014.

Book review of Visiting with the Ancestors by Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown.

Art and Art History Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.

Speaks about cultural tradition, interpretation and concepts of ownership. Introduction from: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.

Book review of: We Are Coming Home edited by Gerald T. Conaty.

Looks at the Smithsonian musuem developing a favorable new way of exhibiting and interpreting Native histories and cultures beginning in the 1970s.

Discusses the study of Chitimacha basketry.

Educational Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1997.

Focuses on selection, processing and management of plant materials used in construction, and uses this information to analyze the collection held in the White Rock Museum

Presents the text of a speech delivered to the Canadian Archaeological Association in St. John's Newfoundland. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 8.

Author examines three different tenets of colonial thought, “that some persons are things, that matter is inert, and that some humans are autonomous of an ecological matrix,” through the lens of art-based projects that responded to the Guatemalan counter-insurgency war (1960—1996).

Provides an overview of the tribal arts auction market and discusses the series of processes for the valuation and sale of tribal art objects.

Book review of: Where the Ancestors Walked by Philip Clarke. Review located by scrolling to page 162.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.

Brief discussion of the issues surrounding museum ownership of bone collections.