Resources

On Kwakwaka’wakw art, culture, and the potlatch ban:  

“Living Tradition: The Kwakwaka’wakw Potlatch on the Northwest Coast” Virtual exhibition (http://umistapotlatch.ca).

“The Power of Giving” Virtual exhibition (http://powerofgiving.synthescape.com).

Boas, Franz. The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians. U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1895. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1897 (http://archive.org/details/cihm_14300).

—. Kwakiutl Ethnography. Edited by Helen Codere. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1966.

Cole, Douglas and Ira Chaikin. An Iron Hand Upon the People: The Law Against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 1990.

Galois, Robert. Kwakwaka’wakw Settlements, 1775-1920: A Geographical Analysis and Gazetteer. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1994.

Hawthorn, Audrey. Kwakiutl Art. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 1979.

Holland, Sarah E., ed. The Power of Giving Die Macht des Schenkens. Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2011.

Jonaitis, Aldona, ed. Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch. New York and Seattle: American Museum of Natural History and University of Washington Press, 1991.

Rohner, Ronald, ed. The Ethnography of Franz Boas: Letters and Diaries of Franz Boas Written on the Northwest Coast from 1886-1931. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Stewart, Hillary. Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995.

Wallas, Chief James. Kwakiutl Legends. Vancouver: Hancock House Publishers Ltd., 1981.


On the Boas 1897 Critical Edition project:

Project site (www.bgc.bard.edu/research-forum/projects/4/the-distributed-text-an-annotated).

Glass, Aaron and Judith Berman. “The Distributed Text: An Annotated Digital Edition of Franz Boas’s Pioneering Ethnography.” Culture Vol. 6(1):18, 2012.

Glass, Aaron, Judith Berman, and Rainer Hatoum. “Reassembling The Social Organization: Collaboration and Digital Media in (Re)making Boas’s 1897 Book.” Museum Worlds 5:108–32, 2017.