Southern Yukon beadwork objects : a narrative of reclaiming culture ...

This thesis concerns the process and outcomes of my research involving a group of Southern Yukon beadwork objects, a project carried out on behalf of the MacBride Museum in Whitehorse, Yukon, in 1993. I studied the objects themselves, researched museum documentation of them, and subsequently intervi...

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Main Author: Johnson, Ingrid
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Published: University of British Columbia 2009
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spelling ftdatacite:10.14288/1.0087105 2024-04-28T08:41:16+00:00 Southern Yukon beadwork objects : a narrative of reclaiming culture ... Johnson, Ingrid 2009 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0087105 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0087105 en eng University of British Columbia article-journal Text ScholarlyArticle 2009 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0087105 2024-04-02T09:41:15Z This thesis concerns the process and outcomes of my research involving a group of Southern Yukon beadwork objects, a project carried out on behalf of the MacBride Museum in Whitehorse, Yukon, in 1993. I studied the objects themselves, researched museum documentation of them, and subsequently interviewed several women elders/beadworkers. In the thesis I examine several ways of studying and researching material culture and provide an analysis of these methods. Looking at objects in different ways tells us something about the nature of them but raises new questions which I address here. Reviewing museum collections records tells us more about the institution and the institutional lives of the objects than about their original context and meaning. Asking elders about the objects inspires them to speak about many seemingly unconnected topics: history, personal and mythical stories, and long ago life and times. An underlying theme which emerged in interviews with elders was their commentary on cultural and ... Text Whitehorse Yukon DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology)
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