Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America: Material Culture in Motion, c.1780 - 1980 (Volume 32) (McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History) PDF
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Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America McGill-Queen’s/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History martha langford and sandra paikowsky, series editors Recognizing the need for a better understanding of Canada’s artistic culture both at home and abroad, the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation, through its generous support, makes possible the publication of innovative books that advance our understanding of Canadian art and Canada’s visual and material culture. This series supports and stimulates such scholarship through the publication of original and rigorous peer-reviewed books that make significant contributions to the subject. We welcome submissions from Canadian and international scholars for book-length projects on historical and contemporary Canadian art and visual and material culture, including Native and Inuit art, architecture, photography, craft, design, and museum studies. Studies by Canadian scholars on non-Canadian themes will also be considered. The Practice of Her Profession The Allied Arts Florence Carlyle, Canadian Painter in the Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada Age of Impressionism Sandra Alfoldy Susan Butlin Rethinking Professionalism Bringing Art to Life Essays on Women and Art in Canada, A Biography of Alan Jarvis 1850–1970 Andrew Horrall Edited by Kristina Huneault and Janice Anderson Picturing the Land Narrating Territories in Canadian The Official Picture Landscape Art, 1500 to 1950 The National Film Board of Canada’s Still Marylin J. McKay Photography Division and the Image of Canada, 1941–1971 The Cultural Work of Photography Carol Payne in Canada Edited by Carol Payne and Andrea Kunard Paul-Émile Borduas A Critical Biography Newfoundland Modern François-Marc Gagnon Architecture in the Smallwood Years, Translated by Peter Feldstein 1949–1972 Robert Mellin On Architecture Melvin Charney: A Critical Anthology The Codex Canadensis and the Writings Edited by Louis Martin of Louis Nicolas The Natural History of the New World, Making Toronto Modern Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales Architecture and Design, 1895–1975 Edited and with an Introduction by Christopher Armstrong François-Marc Gagnon, Translation by Nancy Senior, Modernization by Negotiations in a Vacant Lot Réal Ouellet Studying the Visual in Canada Edited by Lynda Jessup, Erin Morton, Museum Pieces and Kirsty Robertson Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums Ruth B. Phillips Visibly Canadian I’m Not Myself at All Imaging Collective Identities in the Canadas, Women, Art, and Subjectivity in Canada 1820–1910 Kristina Huneault Karen Stanworth The Global Flows of Early Scottish Breaking and Entering Photography The Contemporary House Cut, Spliced, Encounters in Scotland, Canada, and China and Haunted Anthony W. Lee Edited by Bridget Elliott Tear Gas Epiphanies Family Ties Protest, Culture, Museums Living History in Canadian House Museums Kirsty Robertson Andrea Terry What Was History Painting and What Picturing Toronto Is It Now? Photography and the Making of Edited by Mark Salber Phillips a Modern City and Jordan Bear Sarah Bassnett Through Post-Atomic Eyes Architecture on Ice Edited by Claudette Lauzon A History of the Hockey Arena and John O’Brian Howard Shubert Jean Paul Riopelle et le mouvement For Folk’s Sake automatiste Art and Economy in Twentieth-Century François-Marc Gagnon Nova Scotia Erin Morton Jean Paul Riopelle and the Automatiste Movement Spaces and Places for Art François-Marc Gagnon Making Art Institutions in Western Canada, Translated by Donald Winkler 1912–1990 Anne Whitelaw I Can Only Paint The Story of Battlefield Artist Narratives Unfolding Mary Riter Hamilton National Art Histories in an Irene Gammel Unfinished World Edited by Martha Langford Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America Canadian Painters in a Modern World, Material Culture in Motion, c. 1780–1980 1925–1955 Edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, Writings and Reconsiderations and Anne Whitelaw Lora Senechal Carney Sketches from an Unquiet Country Canadian Graphic Satire, 1840–1940 Edited by Dominic Hardy, Annie Gérin, and Lora Senechal Carney Edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America Material Culture in Motion c. 1780–1980 McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Chicago ©McGill-Queen’s University Press 2021 isbn 978-0-2280-0398-4 (cloth) isbn 978-0-2280-0399-1 (paper) Legal deposit first quarter 2021 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Object lives and global histories in northern North America : material culture in motion, c. 1780-1980 / edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw. Names: Lemire, Beverly, 1950- editor. | Peers, Laura L. (Laura Lynn), editor. | Whitelaw, Anne, 1966- editor. Series: McGill-Queen’s/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history. Description: Series statement: McGill-Queen’s/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: Canadiana 20200312936 | isbn 9780228003991 (paper) | isbn 9780228003984 (cloth) Subjects: lcsh: Indigenous peoples—Material culture—Canada— History—Case studies. | lcsh: Indigenous art—Canada—Case studies. | lcsh: Cultural relations—History—Case studies. | lcgft: Case studies. Classification: lcc e78.c2 o25 2021 | ddc 971.004/97—dc23 This book was designed and typeset in Minion 11/14 by studio oneonone. Contents Acknowledgments | ix Maps | xi Introduction | 3 Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw 1 Object Lives: Innovating Methodology | 26 Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw sidebar 1 Management and Methodology | 53 Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw 2 Crossing Worlds: Hide Coats, Relationships, and Identity in Rupert’s Land and Britain | 55 Laura Peers 3 “A Typical Canadian Outfit”: The Red River Coat | 82 Cynthia Cooper sidebar 2 The Huron-Wendat Capot | 108 Cynthia Cooper sidebar 3 The Red River Coat and Its Commercial Promotion | 112 Cynthia Cooper 4 Colonizing Winter: Tobogganing, Toboggan Suits, and Imperial Agendas in the Northlands, c. 1800–1900 | 115 Beverly Lemire sidebar 4 Gifts of Empire | 145 Beverly Lemire 5 Peter Rindisbacher and the Imagined North: Circulations, Realities, and Representations | 149 Julie-Ann Mercer viii contents 6 The Wampum and the Print: Objects Tied to Nicolas Vincent Tsawenhohi’s London Visit, 1824–1825 | 176 Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw sidebar 5 Active Imperial Networks | 200 Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw 7 A Brief History of a Complicated Sweater: Appropriation, Arctic Sovereignty, and Postwar Winter Fashion | 203 Laurie K. Bertram 8 Clare Sheridan: British Writer, Sculptor, and Collector in Blackfoot Country, 1937 | 228 Sarah Carter 9 Dolls, Women’s Art, and Indigenous Networks in the Borderlands of Northern North America, 1885–1945 | 261 Katie Pollock 10 Dew Claw Bags, Indigenous Women, and Material Culture in History and Practice | 289 Judy Half 11 Inscribing the North West: Hide Jackets and Colonial Surveyors | 312 Susan Berry sidebar 6 Jackets in Circulation | 342 Susan Berry 12 From the Sanatorium to the Museum and Beyond: The Circulation of Art and Craft Made by Indigenous Patients at Tuberculosis Hospitals | 346 Sara Komarnisky Figures | 377 Bibliography | 381 Contributors | 419 Index | 423 Acknowledgments Project goals are realized only through the combined efforts and resources of many people and institutions. The Object Lives project began with re- search funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and we are grateful for the support provided. In addition, the University of Alberta committed considerable resources that enabled our team to work effectively toward our goals. We acknowledge this important assistance from many quarters. Contributions also came from several people in the formative and early stages of the project, including Anne de Stecher. The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University in Montreal likewise provided space and support for our Montreal team meeting. This was important, as too was the substantial assistance of the McCord Museum in Montreal, including the active assis- tance of curator Guislaine Lemay, whose interventions added to our progress over an extended period. The McCord Museum’s contributions to our re- search agenda were timely and essential. Curatorial assistance was instrumen- tal in every location where the team assembled, particularly at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford in England, where we first gathered face-to-face for our initial engagement with museum-held objects. We thank the conservation and collections management staff at the Pitt Rivers Museum who facilitated our visit and provided insightful contributions to our discus- sions. We thank Jacqueline Vincent of the Brechin Group for her careful and
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