Archive / Robert Davidson carving at Expo 67’
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Item Details
Title: Robert Davidson carving at Expo 67’
Artist: Robert Davidson
Date: 1967
Format: Photograph [black and white print]
Location: UBC Archives Historical Photographs
Fonds: Information Services, UBC# 41.1/2525
Size: 20.00 × 24.00 cm
More Information: Collection of the Unviersity of British Columbia Archives, UBC 41.1/2525.
Further Research: Aboriginal Art in the SixtiesRelated Items
- 01. Robert Davidson carving totem pole at "Man in His World"
Robert Davidson (Photograph) - 02. Bill Reid and Doug Cranmer carving cedar log in Totem Park
Doug Cranmer and Bill Reid (Photograph) - 03. Indian Art, Vancouver Sun, July 6, 1948
Ted Neel and Ellen Neel (Ephemera) - 04. Kwakiute Indian Carving Totem Pole, Ellen Neel carving demonstration
Ellen Neel (Photograph) - 05. Ellen Neel Carving, "Kwakiutl Indian Carving Totempole"
Ellen Neel (Photograph) - 06. Henry Hunt finishing Expo 1967 pole in Thunderbird Park Victoria
(Photograph) - 07. Katherine Hepburn receiving totem pole carved by Ellen Neel from Harry Duker, Totem Land Society
Ellen Neel (Photograph) - 08. Bill Reid and Doug Cranmer carving the frontal board of Haida Mortuary pole
Doug Cranmer and Bill Reid (Photograph)
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- 09. Doug Cranmer carving at Totem Park
Doug Cranmer (Photograph) - 10. BC Indian Students, Vancouver Sun, April 5, 1968
Robert Davidson (Photograph) - 11. Totem carvers, Ellen Neel and Family
Ellen Neel and Ted Neel (Photograph) - 12. Creator of Totem Pole, Native Voice, September 1954
Arthur Moody (Ephemera) - 13. Ellen Neel Carving with Children
Ellen Neel (Photograph) - 14. Face Carving
Pat McGuire (Sculpture) - 15. Dr Raley beside a totem pole
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Project Sites
Discrete project sites documenting the work of specific artists and collectives in detail.
- 01Aboriginal Art in the Sixties
Curated by Marcia Crosby
Research by Roberta Kremer Designed by The Future - 02Al Neil
Curated by Glenn Alteen Designed by Archer Pechawis - 03Expanded Literary Practices
Curated by Charo Neville
and Michael Turner Designed by The Future - 04The Intermedia Catalogue
Created by Michael de Courcy
Research by Sarah Todd Designed by James Szuszkiewicz - 05Transmission Difficulties
Curated by Scott Watson Designed by Dexter Sinister
- 01Aboriginal Art in the Sixties
Essays
Essays and conversation providing a context for exploring the Project Sites and Archives.
- 01Making Indian Art “Modern”
By Marcia Crosby - 02Vancouver Cinema in the Sixties
By Zoë Druick - 03UBC in the Sixties: A Conversation
Edited by Marian Penner Bancroft - 04Siting the Banal: The Expanded Landscapes of the N.E. Thing Co.
By Nancy Shaw - 05Urban Renewal: Ghost Traps, Collage, Condos, and Squats
By Scott Watson
- 01Making Indian Art “Modern”
Video Interviews
Video interviews conducted between December 2008 and May 2009 reflecting on Vancouver’s art scene in the sixties.
- 01Ingrid Baxter with Grant Arnold
- 02Christos Dikeakos with Lorna Brown
- 03Carole Itter with Lorna Brown
- 04Gary Lee-Nova with Scott Watson