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1 online resource (xv, 252 pages) |
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Art history publication initiative |
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Art history publication initiative.
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| Contents |
Preface: Deep Carving -- Gunalchéesh, Háw'aa (Thank You) -- Introduction: "For Future Generations" -- Chapter One: Archival Claims -- Chapter Two: Exacting Copies -- Chapter Three: French and English Totems -- Chapter Four: John Wallace's Howkan Eagle -- Chapter Five: Proud Raven -- Chapter Six: The Wolf and the Raven -- Chapter Seven: Model Poles and Model Men -- Chapter Eight: The Wrangell Potlatch -- Epilogue: The Legacy of the CCC -- Appendix: The People of the New Deal Totem Parks |
| Summary |
Among Southeast Alaska's best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression, when the US government reversed its policy of suppressing Native practices and began to pay Tlingit and Haida communities to restore older totem poles and move them from ancestral villages into parks designed for tourists. Dramatically altering the patronage and display of historic Tlingit and Haida crests, this New Deal restoration project had two key aims: to provide economic aid to Native people during the Depression and to recast their traditional art as part of America's heritage. Less evident is why Haida and Tlingit people agreed to lend their crest monuments to tourist attractions at a time when they were battling the US Forest Service for control of their traditional lands and resources. Drawing on interviews and government records, as well as on the histories represented by the totem poles themselves, Emily Moore shows how Tlingit and Haida leaders were able to channel the New Deal promotion of Native art as national art into an assertion of their cultural and political rights. Just as they had for centuries, the poles affirmed the ancestral ties of Haida and Tlingit lineages to their lands. Supported by the Jill and Joseph McKinstry Book Fund Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/proud-raven-panting-wolf |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 23, 2019) |
| Subject |
Totem poles -- Alaska -- History -- 20th century
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Parks -- Alaska -- History -- 20th century
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New Deal art -- Alaska
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Tlingit sculpture -- Alaska
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Haida sculpture -- Alaska
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Indians of North America -- Material culture -- Alaska
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ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
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ART -- Native American.
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Haida sculpture
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Indians of North America -- Material culture
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New Deal art
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Parks
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Tlingit sculpture
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Totem poles
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Alaska
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018052398 |
| ISBN |
0295743948 |
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9780295743943 |
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