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Item Details
Title: Sea Monster Mask Dance - Ga-gish
Artist: Chief Henry Speck
Date: [1964]
Format: Painting [watercolour]
Location: Museum of Anthropology, UBC
Fonds: Life Special Collection
Size: 41.90 × 34.30 cm
More Information: Images reproduced in 34.3×41.9 cm in small brochure published by Gallery of Tribal Arts for an exhibition of paintings by Henry Speck c. 1958-1964 in April, 1995 in Vancouver. Courtesy of the University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections.
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Project Sites
Discrete project sites documenting the work of specific artists and collectives in detail.
- 01Aboriginal Art in the Sixties
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Essays
Essays and conversation providing a context for exploring the Project Sites and Archives.
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By Marcia Crosby - 02Vancouver Cinema in the Sixties
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Edited by Marian Penner Bancroft - 04Siting the Banal: The Expanded Landscapes of the N.E. Thing Co.
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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
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- 03Carole Itter with Lorna Brown
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