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Title:
Objects of exchange : social and material transformation on the late nineteenth-century Northwest Coast : selections from the American Museum of Natural History
JLCTITLE245:
Aaron Glass, editor ; [with essays by] Mique'l Askren ... [and others] ; with contributions by students at the Bard Graduate Center.
Publication Information:
New York : Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2011.
Physical Description:
xxi, 253 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780300174427
General Note:
Catalogue of the exhibition shown in the Focus Gallery of Bard Graduate Center from January 26 to April 17, 2011.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and index.
Subject Term:
Indians of North America -- Material culture -- Northwest Coast of North America -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.

Indians of North America -- Commerce -- Northwest Coast of North America -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.

Material culture -- Northwest Coast of North America -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.

Exchange -- Northwest Coast of North America -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.

Intercultural communication -- Northwest Coast of North America -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.

Social change -- Northwest Coast of North America -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Geographic Term:
Northwest Coast of North America -- Ethnic relations -- 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.
Added Author:
Glass, Aaron.

Askren, Mique'l.
Added Corporate Author:
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture.
Contents:
Essays. 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.
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