Record details

• ISBN: 029597608X
• ISBN: 9780295976082
• ISBN: 1550545566 (Canada)
• ISBN: 9781550545562 (Canada)
• Physical Description: xv, 207 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
• Publisher: Toronto : Royal Ontario Museum ; 1997.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-207).

Formatted Contents Note:

1. The Large Collection and Heiltsuk Art History -- 2. Sources: Art, History, Ethnology. The Objects. Published Sources. Unpublished Sources -- 3. Missionaries and Collectors: The Context of the Large Collection. The Bella Bella Mission. Intellectual Climate. Collecting at Bella Bella. Collecting by Missionaries. Large's Northwest Coast Collections. The Prices of Artifacts -- 4. The Large Collection as History: "A More Complete Blending of the Two Lives ..." Tools and Technology. Ritual Dances and Feasts. Provenance: Objects from Other Communities. Shamans and Healing. Mythology -- 5. Five Bella Bella Carvers. Chief Robert Bell. Captain Carpenter. Enoch. General Dick. Daniel Houstie.

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Subject:

Heiltsuk art.
Heiltsuk Indians > Material culture.
Heiltsuk Indians > Antiquities.
Large, Richard Whitfield > Ethnological collections.