Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

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BOOKObjects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

Aaron Glass (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00276

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The late nineteenth century was a period of rapid colonization and dramatic change for the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of America. Objects of Exchange approaches the material culture of the period as visual evidence of shifting intercultural relations. Drawing on the collection of the American Museum of Natural History—from decorated clothing to containers, ceremonial regalia to trade goods—this book reveals the artistic traces of dynamic indigenous activity whereby objects were altered, repurposed, and adapted to meet the challenges of the time. Rather than treating the period as a climax of “traditional” art and culture, the authors suggest that we view its objects as witnesses to the dawn of an indigenous modernity. This remarkable book includes an intimate family portrait of the renowned Haida artist Charles Edenshaw; a discussion of the use of silver in economic and ceremonial contexts; and an exploration of the ways in which Tlingit women adapted beadwork to crest display as well as the tourist trade.

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Aaron Glass (Editor)

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Print publication date February 2011 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300174427

EISBN 9780300265989

Illustrations 152

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List of illustrations

Hudson's Bay Company fort, Fort Rupert, Vancouver Island
Chief Skowl’s pole, carved by Dwight Wallace (Haida). Old Kasaan Village, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
The Nanya.ayí clan Grizzly Bear regalia and other items belonging to Chief Shakes, Wrangell, Alaska
Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw potlatch at Fort Rupert, BC
Crest display by a Sitka clan at a Tlingit potlatch in Klukwan, Alaska
Coconut shell drinking vessel
Mask
Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw chief holding a broken copper at a Ft. Rupert potlatch
Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw ridicule figure said to depict a prostitute
Dugout canoe with both Haida and Heiltsuk attributions
Tlingit button blanket on exhibit at the AMNH
Git Hayetsk dancing the aamhalaayt (chief’s headdress dance)
Git Hayetsk dancing Boa’ (the Cannibal Giant) nax nox
Git Hayetsk dancing the North-wind nax nox
Mike Dangeli, gitsonk, and Mique’l Askren, halaayt, leaders of the Git Hayetsk
Git Hayetsk dancing the Stone Mask nax nox
Git Hayetsk dancing the Stone Mask nax nox
Spruce root hat
Charles Edenshaw at work in his carving shed in Massett
Chief’s settee
Massett lay readers
Main Street in Old Massett, Haida Gwaii, BC
Haida silver bracelet
Haida silver bracelet
Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw silver bracelet
Silver bracelets are displayed on sticks as potlatch goods at Alert Bay, BC
Tlingits (Sitka hosts and Yakutat guests) in ceremonial regalia for 1904 potlatch
V-yoke tunic depicting wolves with dance collar showing a killer whale
The Moccasin Maker
Moccasins
A Lousy Tale, one frame
The War of the Blink, one frame
Red: A Haida Manga, illustrations from pages 110–111
Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment
Graphic Index of the Exhibition
Figure
Figure, alternate view
Argillite container (both sides)
Sphinx figure
Figure
Bear clan headdress adorned with abalone shell
Typical Renaissance-era Madonna and Child
Throwing Stick
Paraphernalia of an unknown Yakutat Tlingit shaman
Bag
Altar in St. Michael Cathedral, Sitka, Alaska
Octopus bag
Bowl
Ivory knives with nucleated circle motifs
Rattle
Rattle
Rattle, detail
Nuxalk raven rattle
Nuu-chah-nulth rattle
Colored pencil drawing of raven rattle
Rattle, unfinished
View of the AMNH Northwest Coast Hall showing the George Emmons collection
George Emmons's original manuscript catalogue, p. 101
Robe
Robe
Pattern board
Drawing room, Douglas, Alaska
Dance legging
Chilkat-style dance headdress
Chilkat-style dance apron
Chilkat-style dance legging
Chest
Chest, alternate view
Chest, alternate view
Tsimshian Chilkat robe
Chief Skedans mortuary pole
Ammunition case
Basketry ammunition case
Ammunition case
Ammunition case
Doll
Anna McKay, a Tlingit woman
Doll dressed in the split quill clothing style of interior Athapaskan peoples
Dance apron
Digital reconstruction of dance apron text
Advertisement from the Daily British Colonist
Bowl
Bowl, alternate view
Feast dish
Headdress
Headdress
Nuu-chah-nulth wolf headdress from Nootka Sound
Drawing of a wolf headdress
Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw bird mask
Drawing of a wolf headdress
Mask
Mask depicting Nułmała
Drawing of a mask at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
Pipe
A modern reconstruction of the S.S. Beaver, with its spiral billet-head carving
A Haida panel pipe inspired by the S.S. Beaver
Pipe
Pipe
Argillite pipe
Figure
Miniature figureheads of a mermaid and a woman with trumpet
Wooden pipe, European in helmet
Basket
Basketry hat with whaling scene
Basketry pitcher
Basketry teacup and saucer
Bracelet
Bracelet, detail
Copper bracelet with shark motif
Plate
Carved Slate Plate
Figure
Beaded bottle
Beaded bird figure
Spoon
Potlatch style engraved silver spoon
Mask
Reproduction of mask with its original inner face
Haida women in regalia
Dance mask
Model pole
John Robson (right) and Tom Price in ceremonial regalia
Model canoe
Model canoe with figures and equipment
Model canoe with paddles and sails
Model house with pole
Model house with pole, detail
Model house with pole, alternate view
Interior of a model of the Skidegate Grizzly Bear House
Drawing
Argillite platter
Cover of the Dover edition of Franz Boas’s Primitive Art
Drawing
Colored pencil drawing
Verso of colored pencil drawing
The Village of Newitti, Hope Island, British Columbia
House in Alert Bay, BC
A Nuu-chah-nulth Weaver, Victoria, British Columbia
Unfinished basketry hat
Chief Shakes lying in state, Wrangell, Alaska
A Yanyeidí (Taku) Tlingit shaman lying in state
The Tlingit graveyard at Klukwan, Alaska
Chilkat graves at Klukwan, Alaska
Grave monuments, Klukwan, Alaska
Interior of Chief Shakes' house, Wrangell, Alaska
Right side of Chief Shakes's house, Wrangell, Alaska
Tlingit Chief Charles Jones Shakes at home with possessions, Wrangell, Alaska
Objects of Exchange exhibition wiki page for figure, AMNH 16/396
Complete tag cloud from Objects of Exchange exhibition wiki
Interactive tag cloud with a thematic term selected, from Objects of Exchange exhibition wiki
Interactive tag cloud with AMNH 16/6887 selected, from Objects of Exchange exhibition wiki
Focus Gallery: Practice and Production, program at the Bard Graduate Center
Map: The First Nations of the Northwest Coast

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Aaron Glass (Editor)

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

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Aaron Glass (Editor)

PublisherBard Graduate Center

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Foreword

Susan Weber

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast inaugurates the Bard Graduate Center Focus Gallery, a space located in our newly expanded gallery building on West 86th Street in New York City. The Focus Gallery has been conceptualized to present exhibitions curated by BGC faculty and derived from ideas that originated in graduate...

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Susan Weber

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Introduction

Aaron Glass

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

Until recently the material heritage of Native North Americans was not a primary feature of the curriculum or exhibition program at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC). Although certain topics or objects may have appeared in courses and exhibits, they were not an integrated component. This is beginning to change, however, as the BGC expands its global purview and builds innovative institutional...

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Aaron Glass

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.xi-xxi

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00276.001

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Chapter subject tags:Indigenous peoplesIndians of North America--Northwest Coast of North AmericaMuseum exhibits

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Essay 1. Objects of Exchange: Material Culture, Colonial Encounter, Indigenous Modernity

Aaron Glass

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

In 1866 John Keast Lord, a member of the British North American Boundary Commission, published a two-volume account of his travels through the recently established Crown Colony of British Columbia, in which he mapped the territory for prospective settlement while...

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Aaron Glass

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.3-35

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00276.002

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Chapter subject tags:Indians of North America--Material cultureIndians of North America--Rites and ceremoniesImperialismCultural relationsCollectors and collecting

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Essay 2. Dancing Our Stone Mask Out of Confinement: A Twenty-first-Century Tsimshian Epistemology

Mique’l Askren

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

Wha amuksism, thla dm sit’a’mim. Ap Luk’wil lu’aamgoodu nwil niidz. Shgu goad Lax Skeek ada Táakw Shaawát di waayu. Rachael Askren waas noayu. Corrine Reeve waa ndi nts’i’dzu. Laxsgiik’m Gispaxlo’ots di pdeegu. Metlakatla, Alaska di wil ‘waatgu.

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Mique’l Askren

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.37-47

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00276.003

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Chapter subject tags:Tsimshian IndiansIndians of North America--Rites and ceremoniesIndian danceTsimshian masks

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Essay 3. Charles Edenshaw on the Colonial Frontier

Margaret B. Blackman

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

Charles Edenshaw (1839–1920) has long been the most recognized face of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Haida art. “The Master Haida artist,” Wilson Duff dubbed him, devoting a whole gallery to his works in the 1967...

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Margaret B. Blackman

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.49-59

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00276.004

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Chapter subject tags:Haida IndiansEdenshaw, Charles, approximately 1839-1920Art--CommissioningJewelryMissionaries

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Essay 4. Bracelets of Exchange

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

From the 1850s on, engraved bracelets made from silver and gold coins were a nearly ubiquitous form of indigenous adornment on the Northwest Coast.Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, “Northwest Coast Silver Bracelets and the Use of Euro-American Designs,” American Indian Art Magazine 25, no. 4 (2000):...

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Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.61-69

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00276.005

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Chapter subject tags:Indians of North America--JewelryKwakiutl Indians

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Essay 5. Beadwork for Basketry in Nineteenth-Century Tlingit Alaska

Megan A. Smetzer

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

Late nineteenth-century beaded objects made from materials acquired through trade with Europeans and techniques learned from interior Athapaskan–speaking people...

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Megan A. Smetzer

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.71-77

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00276.006

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Chapter subject tags:Tlingit beadworkRegaliaTourismTlingit women

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Essay 6. Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas: It Looks Like Manga

Judith Ostrowitz

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

“The outward appearance of two phenomena may be identical, yet their immanent qualities may be altogether different. “Franz Boas, “Museums of Ethnology and their Classification,” Science 9 (1887): 589.

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Judith Ostrowitz

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.79-89

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00276.007

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Chapter subject tags:Yahgulanaas, Michael NicollHaida literatureComic books, strips, etc.

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Catalogue of the Exhibition

Aaron Glass (Editor) and Eugenia Kisin (Contributor)

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

Editor’s note: Unless otherwise stated, attributions and identifications come from American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) collection records. Makers’ tribal affiliations are typically suggested by the site of collection, although we discuss instances where these may diverge. Clear dates of manufacture are highly rare for ethnographic collections of this vintage; here we generally...

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Aaron Glass (Editor) and Eugenia Kisin (Contributor)

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.91-210

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00276.008

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Chapter subject tags:Indians of North America--Northwest Coast of North AmericaIndian mythology--North AmericaIndians of North America--Rites and ceremoniesTourismPhotography in ethnology

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Relational Index for the Catalogue of the Exhibition

Aaron Glass (Editor)

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

Relational Index for the Catalogue of the Exhibition

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Aaron Glass (Editor)

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.215-225

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00276.009

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Chapter subject tags:Museum exhibitsIndigenous peoples

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Commentary I. On the Relational Exhibition in Analog and Digital Media

Aaron Glass and Kimon Keramidas

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

In developing Objects of Exchange, as Aaron Glass selected objects from the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and planned his course syllabus at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC), a number of challenges quickly became apparent to the exhibit team. While organizing the list of loan requests, a significant overlap in themes and selection criteria across specific objects emerged. We asked...

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Aaron Glass and Kimon Keramidas

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.227-235

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00276.010

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Chapter subject tags:Museum exhibitsMuseum curatorsEducatorsEthnological museums and collections

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Commentary II. What We Do: The Focus Gallery

Nina Stritzler-Levine

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

“…exhibitions and museums show, academics write. “Emphasis added. Andreas Beyer, “Between Academic and Exhibition Practice: The Case of Renaissance Studies,” in Charles W. Haxthausen, ed., The Two Art Histories: The Museum and the University, proceedings from the Clark Conference,...

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Nina Stritzler-Levine

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Aaron Glass (Editor)

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

The main groups listed here designate speakers of a common language and do not necessarily reflect political units. Village, town, and city sites are indicated on the map as relevant to objects in the exhibit. Place names on the list of catalogue entries are not necessarily locations of manufacture.

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