LEADER 03941nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910791462803321 005 20240207213947.0 010 $a1-283-33053-9 010 $a9786613330536 010 $a0-7748-5044-2 024 7 $a10.59962/9780774850445 035 $a(CKB)2560000000050371 035 $a(OCoLC)70773505 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10087591 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000382556 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11281400 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000382556 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10392446 035 $a(PQKB)11323268 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3411999 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10056022 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL333053 035 $a(OCoLC)923440387 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/jb77xk 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2010-12-16/1/10087591 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3411999 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3241500 035 $a(DE-B1597)661881 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780774850445 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000050371 100 $a20020829d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTales of ghosts$b[electronic resource] $eFirst Nations art in British Columbia, 1922-61 /$fRonald W. Hawker 210 $aVancouver, BC $cUBC Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (247 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0$a0-7748-0954-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tThe Cranmer Potlatch and Indian Agent Halliday's Display --$tTotem Poles in Stanley Park --$tNorthwest Coast Art as National Heritage: Two Federal Projects of the Late 1920s --$tThe New Deals: George Raley and Depression-Era Reform in British Columbia --$tAlice Ravenhill and the BCIAWS --$tMathias Joe, Mungo Martin, and George Clutesi: "Art" as Resistance --$tUBC, the BCPM, and the Totem Pole Carver Training Program --$tThe Totem Pole Preservation Committee and the Case of the Gitanyow --$tTales of Ghosts That Hover in the World Like Fading Smoke --$tFirst Nations Groups in British Columbia --$tChronology of First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1921-61 --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. Hawker's insightful examination focuses on the complex functions that Northwest Coast objects, such as the ubiquitous totem pole, played during the period. He demonstrates how these objects asserted the integrity and meaningfulness of First Nations identities, while simultaneously resisting the intent and effects of assimilation enforced by the Canadian government's denial of land claims, its ban of the potlatch, and its support of assimilationist education. 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. 606 $aIndigenous art$zNorth America 606 $aIndigenous art$zBritish Columbia$xHistory 606 $aIndigenous art$xPolitical aspects$zBritish Columbia 615 0$aIndigenous art 615 0$aIndigenous art$xHistory. 615 0$aIndigenous art$xPolitical aspects 676 $a704.03/970711 700 $aHawker$b Ronald William$f1963-$01484716 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791462803321 996 $aTales of ghosts$93703505 997 $aUNINA