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Unsettling Native art histories on the Northwest coast / edited by Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Aldona Jonaitis.

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Seattle : Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art, Burke Museum, in association with University of Washington Press, [2020]

Indian art -- Northwest Coast of North America.

Indians of North America -- Material culture.

9780295747132 (hardcover)

0295747137 (hardcover)

Native art of the Pacific Northwest.

334 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Part I. Cultural heritage protection : questions of rights and authority -- A bear in the cedar / Duane Niatum -- The Seward Shame Pole : a Tlingit countermonument to the Alaska Purchase / Emily L. Moore -- The social life of stones : Haida hlgas7agaa/argillite and the making of inalienable commodities / Kaitline McCormick -- Morse code for creation : Jim Schoppert's painterly language for a postmodern survival / Christopher Green -- From "artifakes" to "surrogates" : the replication of Northwest Coast carving by non-natives / Janet Catherine Berlo and Aldona Jonaitis -- Part II. Women's work : stories, art, and power -- One square inch / Lily Hope -- Stl'inll ~ those with clever hands : presenting female indigenous art and scholarship / Jisgang Nika Collison -- Copper seaweed and woven octopus bags : Shgen George and the art of resilience / Megan A. Smetzer -- Ellen Neel and carving on the coast : three decades of change and renewal / Lou-ann Ika'wega Neel -- Part III. Changing museums -- Let Indigenous reign / Ishmael Hope -- In the spirit of reconciliation : rethinking collections and the act of engagement at the Museum of Vancouver / Sharon Fortney -- The museum disappeared : Northwest Coast art and the object of display / Karen Duffek, Peter Morin, and Karen Benbassat Ali -- From behind-the-scenes to the front of the house : Here & Now : Native Artists Inspired at the Burke Museum / Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse -- Woosh.Jee.Een, pulling together : repatriation's healing tide / Lucy Fowler Williams, with contributions by Robert Starbard -- Part IV. Beyond art -- Thoughts on formline / Iljuuwaas Tyson Brown -- Soft robes of thundering power : mountain goat fiber textiles of the Northwest Coast / Evelyn Vanderhoop -- Sayach'apis and the Naani (Grizzly Bear) Crest / Denise Nicole Green -- Tlingit art / Ismael Hope -- Conclusion. Fifty years studying Northwest Coast art : a personal view / Aldona Jonaitis.

"This edited collection focuses on "unsettling" Northwest Coast art studies, bringing forward voices that uphold Indigenous priorities, engage with past and ongoing effects of settler colonialism, and advocate for practices for more accountable scholarship. Featuring authors with a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, and methodologies, Unsettling Art Histories offers new insights for the field of Northwest Coast art studies. Key themes include discussions of cultural heritage protections and long-standing defenses of natural resources and territory; re-centering women and the critical role they play in transmitting cultural knowledge across generations through materials, techniques, and creations; reflecting on the decolonization work being undertaken in museums; and examining how artworks function beyond previous scholarly framings as living documents carrying information critical to today's inquiries. Re-examining previous scholarship and questioning current institutional practices by prioritizing information gathered in Native communities, the essays in this volume exemplify various methods of "unsettling" and demonstrate how new methods of research have reshaped scholarship and museum practices."--

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