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Object lives and global histories in northern North America : material culture in motion, c. 1780-1980

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Call Number
07.2 L54o
Responsibility
Edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
x, [x], 450 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Museum
Museum Studies
Material culture
North America
Object
History
Indigenous
Indigenous Art
Abstract
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and peoples, Indigenous-made dolls, and an Englishwoman's collection provide case studies of art and material culture that correct and give nuance to global and imperial histories. The result of a collaborative research process involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors, this book looks closely at the circumstances of making, use, and circulation of these objects: things that supported and defined both Indigenous resistance and colonial and imperial purposes. Contributors re-envision the histories of northern North America by focusing on the lives of things flowing to and from this vast region between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, showing how material culture is a critical link that tied this diverse landscape to the wider world. An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America provides a key analytical and methodological lens that exposes the complexity of cultural encounters and connections between local and global communities.-- Provided by publisher
Contents
Acknowledgments ; Maps ; Introduction / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; 1. Object lives: innovating methodology / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; Sidebar 1. Management and methodology / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; 2. Crossing worlds: hide coats, relationships, and identity in Rupert's Land and Britain / Laura Peers ; 3. "A typical Canadian outfit": the Red River coat / Cynthia Cooper ; Sidebar 2. The Huron-Wendat Capot / Cynthia Cooper ; Sidebar 3. The Red River coat and its commercial promotion / Cynthia Cooper ; 4. Colonizing winter: tobogganing, toboggan suits, and imperial agendas in the Northlands, c. 1800-1900 / Beverly Lemire ; Sidebar 4. Gifts of empire / Beverly Lemire ; 5. Peter Rindisbacher and the imagined North: circulations, realities, and representations / Julie-Ann Mercer ; 6. The wampum and the print: objects tied to Nicolas Vincent Tsawenhohi's London visit, 1824-1825 / Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw ; Sidebar 5. Active imperial networks / Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw ; 7. A brief history of the "Eskimo sweater" / Laurie K. Bertram ; 8. Clare Sheridan: British writer, sculptor, and collector in Blackfoot country, 1937 / Sarah Carter ; 9. Dolls, women's art, and Indigenous networks in the borderlands of northern North America, 1885-1945 / Katie Pollock ; 10. Dew claw bags, Indigenous women, and material culture in history and practice / Judy Half and Beverly Lemire ; 11. Inscribing the North West: hide jackets and colonial surveyors / Susan Berry ; Sidebar 6. Jackets in circulation / Susan Berry ; 12. From the sanatorium to the museum and beyond: the circulation of art and craft made by Indigenous patients at tuberculosis hospitals / Sara Komarnisky ; Figures ; Bibliography ; Contributors ; Index.
ISBN
9780228003991
Accession Number
P2022.13
Call Number
07.2 L54o
Collection
Archives Library
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1924
Medium
graphite on conte paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.027
Description
A still life drawing of a strange head, probably from a sculpture. Profile of bald male head in graphite. Eyes appear closed. Strong outlines. To the right of the main figure is a lightly sketched bald head facing the viewer. Below and above sketch are various lightly drawn marks. In red conte a cu…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1924
Medium
graphite on conte paper
Dimensions
63.0 x 48.5 cm
Description
A still life drawing of a strange head, probably from a sculpture. Profile of bald male head in graphite. Eyes appear closed. Strong outlines. To the right of the main figure is a lightly sketched bald head facing the viewer. Below and above sketch are various lightly drawn marks. In red conte a curly C in BRC. Watermarked: Circular STRATHMORE PAPARE. TLC: Thistle design. BRC: Peter White in Black Conte and below in Jan 18-24
Subject
object
still life
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.027
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1924
Medium
graphite on conte paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.028
Description
A still life drawing of a baby’s face from a sculpture. In the TRC is written ‘In Memoriam / January 22nd 1924’. Face is 3/4 posed to viewer left. Mouth is open. Rendered in simplified dark outlines. Sculpture carved in high relief. Light sketches of indistinguishable to BR of main figure. BLC: Rut…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1924
Medium
graphite on conte paper
Dimensions
63.3 x 48.0 cm
Description
A still life drawing of a baby’s face from a sculpture. In the TRC is written ‘In Memoriam / January 22nd 1924’. Face is 3/4 posed to viewer left. Mouth is open. Rendered in simplified dark outlines. Sculpture carved in high relief. Light sketches of indistinguishable to BR of main figure. BLC: Ruth Thrimvle red illegible words above name. WM: Circular stamp of STRATHMORE PAPARE with thistle designBRC: Peter White - Jan 30
Subject
object
still life
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.028
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1930 – 1960
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.781
Description
Three boxes that depict concepts of Christmas cards. In the first box it is a gathering of the animals outside, second box is just a quick sketch of a moose, and the third is the moose staring at what appears to be shelves that is storing unknown objects. Inside the fold: there is some writing done…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1930 – 1960
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
12.3 x 10.8 cm
Description
Three boxes that depict concepts of Christmas cards. In the first box it is a gathering of the animals outside, second box is just a quick sketch of a moose, and the third is the moose staring at what appears to be shelves that is storing unknown objects. Inside the fold: there is some writing done in a blue pencil that is not legible on the far right side. On top of it is a quick boxed off sketch of all the animals sitting in a library reading. To the left of this drawing there is a quick box sketched with a loose moose doodle on the inside, and another outside near the left edge. verso: Another quick boxed off sketch of the animals appearing to be on some surface in the air, with a mountain range below them. There appears to be something holding them up above the drawing from lines along the edge of support.
Subject
moose
outside
shelves
storage
object
reading
support
mountains
mountain range
flying
birds
deer
squirrel
bear
rabbit
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.781
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1925 – 1929
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.933
Description
A value study on a bowl. The shading is hatched and cross hatched in
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1925 – 1929
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
5.3 x 11.5 cm
Description
A value study on a bowl. The shading is hatched and cross hatched in
Subject
value
light
shadow
object
bowl
still life
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.933
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Artist
Peter or Catharine Whyte
Date
1920 – 1928
Medium
graphite on conte paper
Catalogue Number
Wy?.03.077
Description
Still life drawing of an animal skull.
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Artist
Peter or Catharine Whyte
Title
Untitled
Date
1920 – 1928
Medium
graphite on conte paper
Dimensions
52.0 x 42.0 cm
Description
Still life drawing of an animal skull.
Subject
object
animal skull.
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
Wy?.03.077
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