Out of the Mist

Martha Black

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This beautifully photographed book features important historical and contemporary objects of Nuu-chah-nulth art and culture, all placed within a historical framework. Includes hereditary names and songs, dances, rights, lands and resources.

“The Nuu-chah-nulth are survivors. This book is their yearbook, a family album, an annual report of the original people of the west coast of this island.” – Robert Amos, Victoria Times-Colonist.

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1999, paperback, 160 pages

ISBN 978-0-7718-9547-0

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Description

Out of the Mist celebrates the art, culture and history of the Nuu-chah-nulth (formerly called Nootka) nations. It features the material culture – including many major art pieces – of the richly complex societies along the west coast of Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula. With the help of many Nuu-chah-nulth voices, Martha Black places the objects in context with the cultures and histories of the people who created them.

HuupuKwanum and Tupaat are Nuu-chah-nulth words that designate everything a chief owns, including hereditary names and songs, objects, dances, rights and privileges, lands, and resources. These concepts introduce non-aboriginal people to the profound philosophical, spiritual and personal connections that these objects have always had within Nuu-chah-nulth communities.

See also the companion volume, Nuu-chah-nulth Voices, Histories, Objects and Journeys, edited by Alan L. Hoover

 

About the Author

Curator of ethnology at the Royal BC Museum since 1997, Martha Black has a PhD in Art History from the University of Victoria (1998) and a MA in Interdisciplinary Studies from York University, Toronto (1988), both focused on Heiltsuk art and museum collections. She has worked on many successful collaborative projects with First Nations and is a specialist in the theory and practice of repatriation within and outside of the treaty negotiation process.

 

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