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Item Details
Title: Robert Davidson carving totem pole at "Man in His World"
Artist: Robert Davidson
Date: 1970
Format: Photograph [black and white print]
Location: UBC Archives Historical Photographs
Fonds: UBC# 41.1/1786-1
Size: 24.00 × 19.00 cm
More Information: Robert Davidson carving a totem pole at the “Man in His World” site that lived on after Expo 67’. Davidson carved in 1970 and presented the 10’ pole to the City of Montreal. Collection of the Unviersity of British Columbia Archives, UBC 41.1/1786-1.
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- 01. Indians to Get New Home Grants, Vancouver Sun, May 16, 1967
(Ephemera) - 02. Eaton's Salutes Our Native Indian Culture, Vancouver Sun, July 18, 1967
(Ephemera) - 03. Totem carvers, Ellen Neel and Family
Ellen Neel and Ted Neel (Photograph) - 04. Small Magic Ring
Roy Kiyooka (Painting) - 05. Hunter Lewis introducing Mungo Martin at the opening of Totem Park
Mungo Martin (Photograph) - 06. Indian Cultural Society Holds Vancouver Fete, Native Voice, April 1963
(Ephemera) - 07. Bill Reid and Doug Cranmer carving cedar log in Totem Park
Doug Cranmer and Bill Reid (Photograph) - 08. Ellen Neel Carving with Children
Ellen Neel (Photograph)
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Doug Cranmer and Bill Reid (Photograph) - 13. George Clutesi
George Clutesi (Photograph) - 14. Salish canoe races in North Vancouver
(Photograph) - 15. Indian Painter Chief Exhibitor: Banquet Opens Port Alberni Show - Lawren Harris Officiates, Vancouver Province, September 20, 1944
Palette (Ephemera)
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