Objects of exchange
Subtitle: social and material transformation on the late nineteenth-century Northwest Coast : selections from the American Museum of Natural History
By: Aaron Glass, editor ; [with essays by] Mique'l Askren ... [et al.] ; with contributions by students at the Bard Graduate Center
Contributors: Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Publisher: Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture; Distributed by Yale University Press; Bard Center
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780300174427
Subjects: Material culture; History; Exhibitions; Indians of North America; Commerce; Exchange; Social change; Ethnic relations; Colonial influence; Social life and customs; Intercultural communication
Notes: Catalogue of the exhibition shown in the Focus Gallery of Bard Graduate Center from January 26 to April 17, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Essays; title: Objects of exchange : material culture, colonial encounter, Indigenous modernity / Aaron Glass; title: Dancing our stone mask out of confinement : a 21st century Tsimshian epistemology / Mique'l Askren; title: Charles Edenshaw on the colonial frontier / Margaret Blackman; title: Bracelets of exchange / Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse; title: Beadwork for basketry in nineteenth-century Tlingit Alaska / Megan Smetzer; title: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas : it looks like manga / Judith Ostrowitz; title: Catalogue of the exhibition / Aaron Glass with BGC graduate students; title: Commentary; title: On the relational exhibition in digital and analog media / Aaron Glass and Kimon Keramidas; title: The Focus Gallery : towards an alternative practice / Nina Stritzler-Levine.