Early Scottish museum collections of Haida argillite carving

• Main Author: McCormick, Kaitlin
• Other Authors: Baxstrom, Richard, Harries
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2016
• Subjects: Haida; argillite; Scottish museums; museum display; collectors; Canada; Hector; Rae; haida
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22827

This thesis is about four historical collections of Haida argillite carvings now at the National Museum of Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museums and the Perth Museum and Art Gallery. Since the early nineteenth century Haida artists have carved argillite, a carbonaceous shale, into objects fea...