Native art of the Northwest Coast : a history of changing ideas

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ISBN: 9780774820493 (bound)
ISBN: 9780774820509 (paperback)
Physical Description: print
xxxvi, 1081 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports., genealogical table ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, c2013.

General Note:	"Most chapters consist of an introductory essay followed by excerpts from the literature"--Page xxxv.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : The idea of northwest coast native art / Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and Ki-ke-in -- 1. Interpreting cultural symbols of the People from the Shore / Daisy Sewid-Smith -- 2. Hilth Hiitinkis : from the beach / Ki-ke-in-- 3. Haida cosmic / Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas -- 4. From explorers to ethnographers, 1770-1870 / Ira Jacknis -- 5. Thresholds of meaning : voice, time, and epistemology in the archaeological consideration of Northwest Coast art / Andrew Martindale -- 6. Objects and knowledge : early accounts from ethnographers and their written records and collecting practices, ca. 1880-1930 / Andrea Laforet -- 7. "That which was most important" : Louis Shotridge on Crest art and clan history / Judith Berman -- 8. Anthropology of art : shifting paradigms and practices, 1870s-1950 / Bruce Granville Miller -- 9. Going by the book : missionary perspectives / John Barker -- 10. The dark years / Gloria Cranmer Webster.