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Objects of exchange : social and material transformation on the late nineteenth-century Northwest Coast : selections from the American Museum of Natural History / Aaron Glass, editor ; [with essays by] Mique'l Askren ... [et al.] ; with contributions by students at the Bard Graduate Center.

Title
Objects of exchange : social and material transformation on the late nineteenth-century Northwest Coast : selections from the American Museum of Natural History / Aaron Glass, editor ; [with essays by] Mique'l Askren ... [et al.] ; with contributions by students at the Bard Graduate Center.
Publication
New York : Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • American Museum of Natural History.
  • Askren, Mique'l.
  • Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
  • Glass, Aaron
Description
xxi, 253 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 23 cm.
Subject
  • Exchange > Northwest Coast of North America > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Indians of North America > History > Northwest Coast of North America > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Indians of North America > Northwest Coast of North America > Social life and customs > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Indians of North America > Social life and customs > Northwest Coast of North America > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Intercultural communication > Northwest Coast of North America > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Material culture > Northwest Coast of North America > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Northwest Coast of North America > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Social change > Northwest Coast of North America > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
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.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780300174427
  • 030017442X
LCCN
^^2010049885