Table of Contents
Foreword
Susan Weber
Introduction
Aaron Glass
Essays
1. Objects of Exchange: Material Culture, Colonial Encounter, Indigenous Modernity
Aaron Glass
2. Dancing Our Stone Mask Out of Confinement: A Twenty-first-Century Tsimshian Epistemology
Mique’l Askren
3. Charles Edenshaw on the Colonial Frontier
Margaret B. Blackman
4. Bracelets of Exchange
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
5. Beadwork for Basketry in Nineteenth-Century Tlingit Alaska
Megan A. Smetzer
6. Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas: It looks like Manga
Judith Ostrowitz
Catalogue of the Exhibition
BGC Graduate Students with Aaron Glass
Relational Index for the Catalogue of the Exhibition
Commentaries
I. On the Relational Exhibition in Analog and Digital Media
Aaron Glass and Kimon Keramidas
II. What We Do: The Focus Gallery
Nina Stritzler-Levine
Maps
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Photographic Credits
Contributors
Aaron Glass
BGC Assistant Professor or Anthropology
Mique’l Askren
PhD candidate in art history at the Uiversity of British Columbia
Margaret Blackman
Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the College at Brockport, State University of New York
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
Art historian at the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art, Burke Museum
Kimon Keramidas
Assistant Director of the Digital Media Lab at the Bard Graduate Center
Judith Ostrowitz
Visual artist and independent art historian in New York City
Megan Smetzer
Independent art historian and lecturer at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Nina Stritzler-Levine
Chief Curator and Executive Editor of Gallery Publications at the Bard Graduate Center