CANS 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chilkat Weaving, Gerald Mcmaster, Potlatch
21 Nov 2015
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Int piece=accompanying essays really showed indg people"s voices, didn"t necessarily even discuss artworks, were more supplemental. Colonization to repatriation reading=colonial experience viewed thru personal lens. Need for u"mista created by potlatch law (added to indian law 1884, removed 1951), which came to outlaw all indg ceremonies/practices in can. Kwakwaka"wakw (kwakiutl=old term used to refer to entire nation b4 people accepted that it was heterogeneous group)=nation of people united under kwakwala language, geographically in bc, northern van island, nearby islands. Kawagu considered themselves superior, which other tribes acknowledged. Catalog indigina accompanied exhibit 1992 at can museum of civilization. Context=500th anniversary of columbus, many celebrations, this one more. Film in the land of the headhunters --1st feature length, silent film to star indg cast, 1st film made in can. Potlatch organized chief to show power of his house, held for births, deaths, naming ceremonies, weddings, give away titles to land/resources/rank within ceremonies.
