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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
- 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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- 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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- 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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