Proud raven, panting wolf : carving Alaska's New Deal totem parks / Emily L. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Emily L. (Emily Lehua), author.

Series:

Art history publication series.

Art history publication initiative books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Totem poles--Alaska--History--20th century.

Totem poles.

Parks--Alaska--History--20th century.

Parks.

New Deal art--Alaska.

New Deal art.

Tlingit sculpture--Alaska.

Tlingit sculpture.

Haida sculpture--Alaska.

Haida sculpture.

Indians of North America--Material culture--Alaska.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Carving Alaska's New Deal totem parks

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

Summary:

Among Southeast Alaska’s best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression, when the US government reversed its policy of suppressing Native practices and began to pay Tlingit and Haida communities to restore older totem poles and move them from ancestral villages into parks designed for tourists.Dramatically altering the patronage and display of historic Tlingit and Haida crests, this New Deal restoration project had two key aims: to provide economic aid to Native people during the Depression and to recast their traditional art as part of America’s heritage. Less evident is why Haida and Tlingit people agreed to lend their crest monuments to tourist attractions at a time when they were battling the US Forest Service for control of their traditional lands and resources.Drawing on interviews and government records, as well as on the histories represented by the totem poles themselves, Emily Moore shows how Tlingit and Haida leaders were able to channel the New Deal promotion of Native art as national art into an assertion of their cultural and political rights. Just as they had for centuries, the poles affirmed the ancestral ties of Haida and Tlingit lineages to their lands.Supported by the Jill and Joseph McKinstry Book FundArt History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/proud-raven-panting-wolf

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface: Deep Carving

Gunalchéesh, Háw'aa (Thank You)

Introduction: "For Future Generations"

Chapter One: Archival Claims

Chapter Two: Exacting Copies

Chapter Three: French and English Totems

Chapter Four: John Wallace's Howkan Eagle

Chapter Five: Proud Raven

Chapter Six: The Wolf and the Raven

Chapter Seven: Model Poles and Model Men

Chapter Eight: The Wrangell Potlatch

Epilogue: The Legacy of the CCC

Appendix: The People of the New Deal Totem Parks

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295743943

0295743948

OCLC:

1061863509