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Objects of exchange : social and material transformation on the late nineteenth-century Northwest Coast : selections from the American Museum of Natural History

By: Askren, Mique'lContributor(s): Glass, Aaron [Role: contributor editor] (Ed) | American Museum of Natural History | Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material CultureLanguage: English Publication details: New York Bard Graduate Center 2011 ISBN: 0300265980Subject(s): Exchange--Northwest Coast of North America--History--19th century--Exhibitions | Indians of North America--Commerce--Northwest Coast of North America--History--19th century--Exhibitions | Indians of North America--Material culture--Northwest Coast of North America--Social life and customs--19th century--Exhibitions | Indians of North America--Northwest Coast of North America--Social life and customs--19th century--Exhibitions | Intercultural communication--Northwest Coast of North America-History-19th century-Exhibitions | Material culture--Northwest Coast of North America--History--19th century--Exhibitions | Social change--Northwest Coast of North America--History--19th century--Exhibitions | Northwest Coast of North America--Colonial influence--History--19th century--Exhibitions | Northwest Coast of North America--Commerce--History--19th century--Exhibitions | Northwest Coast of North America--Ethnic relations--History--19th century--ExhibitionsGeneral note: Catalog of the exhibition shown in the Focus Gallery of Bard Graduate Center from January 26 to April 17, 2011.Online resources: [A&AePortal (Yale University Press)]
Contents:
Objects of exchange : material culture, colonial encounter, Indigenous modernity / Aaron Glass -- Dancing our stone mask out of confinement : a 21st century Tsimshian epistemology / Mique'l Askren -- Charles Edenshaw on the colonial frontier / Margaret Blackman -- Bracelets of exchange / Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse -- Beadwork for basketry in nineteenth-century Tlingit Alaska / Megan Smetzer -- Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas : it looks like manga / Judith Ostrowitz -- Catalogue of the exhibition / BGC graduate students with Aaron Glass -- Commentaries. On the relational exhibition in digital and analog media / Aaron Glass and Kimon Keramidas -- What we do : the Focus Gallery / Nina Stritzler-Levine.
Summary: Includes bibliographical references and index.Summary: The late nineteenth century was a period of rapid colonization and dramatic change for the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of America. Objects of Exchange approaches the material culture of the period as visual evidence of shifting intercultural relations. Drawing on the collection of the American Museum of Natural History-from decorated clothing to containers, ceremonial regalia to trade goods-this book reveals the artistic traces of dynamic indigenous activity whereby objects were altered, repurposed, and adapted to meet the challenges of the time. Rather than treating the period as a climax of ""traditional"" art and culture, the authors suggest that we view its objects as witnesses to the dawn of an indigenous modernity. This remarkable book includes an intimate family portrait of the renowned Haida artist Charles Edenshaw; a discussion of the use of silver in economic and ceremonial contexts; and an exploration of the ways in which Tlingit women adapted beadwork to crest display as well as the tourist trade.Summary: 2022"
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Objects of exchange : material culture, colonial encounter, Indigenous modernity / Aaron Glass -- Dancing our stone mask out of confinement : a 21st century Tsimshian epistemology / Mique'l Askren -- Charles Edenshaw on the colonial frontier / Margaret Blackman -- Bracelets of exchange / Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse -- Beadwork for basketry in nineteenth-century Tlingit Alaska / Megan Smetzer -- Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas : it looks like manga / Judith Ostrowitz -- Catalogue of the exhibition / BGC graduate students with Aaron Glass -- Commentaries. On the relational exhibition in digital and analog media / Aaron Glass and Kimon Keramidas -- What we do : the Focus Gallery / Nina Stritzler-Levine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The late nineteenth century was a period of rapid colonization and dramatic change for the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of America. Objects of Exchange approaches the material culture of the period as visual evidence of shifting intercultural relations. Drawing on the collection of the American Museum of Natural History-from decorated clothing to containers, ceremonial regalia to trade goods-this book reveals the artistic traces of dynamic indigenous activity whereby objects were altered, repurposed, and adapted to meet the challenges of the time. Rather than treating the period as a climax of ""traditional"" art and culture, the authors suggest that we view its objects as witnesses to the dawn of an indigenous modernity. This remarkable book includes an intimate family portrait of the renowned Haida artist Charles Edenshaw; a discussion of the use of silver in economic and ceremonial contexts; and an exploration of the ways in which Tlingit women adapted beadwork to crest display as well as the tourist trade.

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