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Item Details
Title: T'sonokua in the water with an Octopus
Artist: Mungo Martin
Date: 1950
Format: Painting [watercolour]
Location: Museum of Anthropology, UBC
Fonds: MOA ID A9045
Size: 45.70 × 30.00 cm
More Information: T’sonokua (Wild Woman of the Woods) Mungo Martin, while recuperating in hospital in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, began drawing and painting in pencil and watercolour. Courtesy UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada, A9045. Kyla Bailey photographer.
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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
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Research by Sarah Todd Designed by James Szuszkiewicz - 05Transmission Difficulties
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- 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