Privileging the past : reconstructuring history in northwest coast art / Judith Ostrowitz ; foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn.

Author/creator Ostrowitz, Judith
Format Book
Publication InfoSeattle : University of Washington ; Vancouver : UBC Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxiii, 201 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Subjects

Contents Expedience and classicism at the Chief Shakes Community House -- The map and the territory in the grand hall at the Canadian Museum of Civilization -- Making dance history: Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw performance art at the American Museum of Natural History -- False cognates: looking backward at the latest thing in contemporary Northwest coast art -- The style in which they were imagined.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [175]-189) and index.
LCCN 99042684
ISBN0295978147