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Tales of ghosts : First Nations art in British Columbia, 1922-61 Cover Image Book Book

Tales of ghosts : First Nations art in British Columbia, 1922-61

Hawker, Ronald William 1963- (Author).

Summary: The years between 1922 and 1961, often referred to as the “Dark Ages of Northwest Coast art,” have largely been ignored by art historians, and dismissed as a period of artistic decline. Tales of Ghosts compellingly reclaims this era, arguing that it was instead a critical period during which the art played an important role in public discourses on the status of First Nations people in Canadian society. Those with an interest in First Nations and Canadian history and art history, anthropology, museology, and post-colonial studies will be delighted by the publication of this major contribution to their fields.

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  • ISBN: 077480954X
  • ISBN: 9780774809542
  • Physical Description: viii, 236 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
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  • Publisher: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, 2003.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-229) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: The Cranmer potlatch and Indian agent Halliday's display -- Totem poles in Stanley Park -- Northwest coast art as national heritage: two federal projects of the late 1920s -- The New Deals: George Raley and Depression-era reform in British Columbia -- Alice Ravenhill and the BCIAWS -- Mathias Joe, Mungo Martin, and George Clutesi: "Art" as resistance -- UBC, the BCPM, and the totem pole carver training program -- The totem pole preservation committee and the case of the Gitanyow -- Tales of ghosts that hover in the world like fading smoke.

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Subject: Indigenous peoples -- British Columbia -- History
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Topic Heading: First Nations Canada.
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  • 2 of 2 copies available at University College of the North Libraries.

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The Pas Campus Library E 78 .B9 H345 2003 (Text) 38500000290069 Stacks Volume hold Available -
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