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Item Details
Title: Mathias Joe (Chief Joe Capilano) with a Totem Pole
Artist: Mathias Joe (Chief Joe Capilano)
Date: [1930]
Format: Photograph [black and white print]
Location: City of Vancouver Archives
Fonds: Stuart Thompson Fonds, CVA # 99-2507
Size: 12.00 × 14.00 cm
More Information: Collection of the City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-2507.
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(Photograph)
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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
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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