In the Spirit of the Ancestors celebrates the vitality of Contemporary Pacific Northwest Coast art by showcasing a selection of objects from the Burke Museum\'s collection of more than 2, 400 late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century Native American works.
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse is assistant director of the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest.
She is the author of Northern Haida Master Carvers.
Wright is curator of Native American art at the Burke Museum, director of the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art, and professor of art history at the University of Washington, Seattle. com/watch?v=E15hbqv Ho4w&list=UUge4MONg LFnc Q1w1C_Bn Hcw&index=7&feature=plcp About the Author: Robin K. youtube.
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Splendid color photographs of works never before published will delight everyone.
The diversity of approaches presented by these contributors speaks to artists, collectors, academics, tribal communities, and all those interested in Pacific Northwest Coast art.
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse explores the power of adornment and how clothing, jewelry, and personal adornments like tattooing express tribal and personal identity in ways both connected to the past and grounded in the present.
Emily Moore discusses the repatriation of two stolen house posts and proposes a new concept of "propatriation" to describe the resulting commissioning of Contemporary posts to take their place.
Wright explores the history of box drums and their revival.
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Shaun Peterson, Lisa Telford, and Evelyn Vanderhoop discuss the historical precedents for working in styles that were kept alive only by a few critical artists and are now making a comeback.
Margaret Blackman reflects on building one of the largest collections of Northwest Coast serigraphs, and Joe David reminisces about his artistic journey through mask-making.
Essays focus on Contemporary art while exploring the important historical precedents on which so many artists rely for training and inspiration.
In the Spirit of the Ancestors celebrates the vitality of Contemporary Pacific Northwest Coast art by showcasing a selection of objects from the Burke Museum\'s collection of more than 2, 400 late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century Native American works
