Preface

Introduction: The Idea of Northwest Coast Native Art / Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and ¿i-¿e-in

1 Interpreting Cultural Symbols of the People from the Shore / Daisy Sewid-Smith

2 Hilth Hiitinkis -- From the Beach / ¿i-¿e-in

3 Haida Cosmic / Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

4 From Explorers to Ethnographers, 1770-1870 / Ira Jacknis

5 Thresholds of Meaning: Voice, Time, and Epistemology in the Archaeological Consideration of Northwest Coast Art / Andrew Martindale

6 Objects and Knowledge: Early Accounts from Ethnographers, and Their Written Records and Collecting Practices, ca. 1880-1930 / Andrea Laforet

7 "That Which Was Most Important": Louis Shotridge on Crest Art and Clan History / Judith Berman

8 Anthropology of Art: Shifting Paradigms and Practices, 1870s-1950 / Bruce Granville Miller

9 Going by the Book: Missionary Perspectives / John Barker

10 The Dark Years / Gloria Cranmer Webster

11 Surrealists and the New York Avant-Garde, 1920-60 / Marie Mauzé

12 Northwest Coast Art and Canadian National Identity, 1900-50 / Leslie Dawn

13 Art/Craft in the Early Twentieth Century / Scott Watson

14 Welfare Politics, Late Salvage, and Indigenous (In)Visiblity, 1930-60 / Ronald W. Hawker

15Form First, Function Follows: The Use of Formal Analysis in Northwest Coast Art History / Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

16 Democratization and Northwest Coast Art in the Modern Period: Native Emissaries, Non-Native Connoisseurship, and Consumption / Judith Ostrowitz

17 History and Critique of the "Renaissance" Discourse / Aaron Glass

18 Starting from the Beginning / Marianne Nicolson

19 Shifting Theory, Shifting Publics: The Anthropology of Northwest Coast Art in the Postwar Era / Alice Marie Campbell

20 Value Added: The Northwest Coast Art Market since 1965 / Karen Duffek

21 "Where Mere Words Failed": Northwest Coast Art and Law / Douglas S. White

22 Art for Whose Sake? / ¿i-¿e-in

23 "Fighting with Property": The Double-Edged Character of Ownership / Jennifer Kramer

24 Museums and Northwest Coast Art / Aldona Jonaitis

25 Collaborations: A Historical Perspective / Martha Black

26 Pushing Boundaries, Defying Categories: Aboriginal Media Production on the Northwest Coast / Kristin L. Dowell

27 Art Claims in the Age of Delgamuukw / Charlotte Townsend-Gault

28 Stop Listening to Our Ancestors / Paul Chaat Smith

29 NWC on the Up ... Load: Surfing for Northwest Coast Art / Dana Claxton

30 The Material and the Immaterial across Borders / Charlotte Townsend-Gault

Works Cited

Index