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Item Details
Title: Moon Mask Dancers
Artist: Chief Henry Speck
Date: [1962]
Format: Painting [watercolour]
Location: Museum of Anthropology, UBC
Fonds: MOA ID A8003
Size: 36.60 × 42.90 cm
More Information: Three masked dancers with button blankets, one with a killer whale on the back. Two front facing dancers wear cedar bark neck rings. Courtesy UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada, A8003. Derek Tan photographer.
Further Research: Aboriginal Art in the SixtiesRelated Items
- 01. Moon Festival
Michael de Courcy and Herb Gilbert (Photograph) - 02. Sea Monster Mask Dance - Ga-gish
Chief Henry Speck (Painting) - 03. The Indian as Artist, Part 1
Wilson Duff and Chief Henry Speck (Audio) - 04. Tsonoqua Mask
Ellen Neel (Sculpture) - 05. What the Heck Says Mr. Speck: The Chief Gives a Tootle for the Talents of Kwakiutl, Vancouver Sun, March 24, 1961
Chief Henry Speck (Ephemera) - 06. Mick Henry opening
Michael de Courcy, Mick Henry, and Dennis Vance (Photograph) - 07. Diana Dunstan and Chief Dan George
(Photograph) - 08. Pencil Drawing
Chief Henry Speck (Drawing)
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Michael de Courcy, Roy Kiyooka, and Henry Rappaport (Photograph) - 12. Video screening at Intermedia
Michael de Courcy, Al Neil, and Henry Rappaport (Photograph) - 13. Mick Henry opening
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 14. Henry Rappaport outside of Intermedia on 4th Avenue
Michael de Courcy and Henry Rappaport (Photograph) - 15. Father Forgive Them
Chief Henry Speck (Painting)
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