On the second floor of Hillcrest community centre, William Wasden Jr. meets a group of women and men every Tuesday to teach them how to sing traditional indigenous songs. What’s challenging for ...

For nearly 100 years, through mirrored eyes carved from cedar, the Kwakwaka’wakw sun mask witnessed worlds it was never meant to see. Seized during an infamous raid on a potlatch in remote British ...

The iconic Kwakwaka’wakw artist, activist and Chief Beau Dick’s work and world view are the focus of the new book Beau Dick Devoured by Consumerism. Out officially June 4 is a companion piece to the ...

Off the northern tip of Vancouver Island, a small group of people has survived since time began. Their stories capture the essence of their relationship with the sea and its creatures, and the rites, ...

The Burke Museum has moved fundraising for the project to Kickstarter. With Seahawks fever again in full swing, Seattle’s Burke Museum is looking to bring a native mask said to have inspired the ...

The U'mista Cultural Society will receive funding of $49,694 through the Museums Assistance Program to create an exhibition at the U'mista Cultural Centre showcasing Kwakwaka'wakw women and weaving as ...

Settee back, unknown Kwakwaka’wakw maker, collected by George Hunt in 1898–99, wood, pigment, metal (all images courtesy The Bard Graduate Center) As a young anthropology student, full of piss and ...

From left: A pole on the grounds of a waterfront home on Haida Gwaii; wooden masks carved by the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation on display at the U’mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay, off Vancouver Island ...

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Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema, edited by Brad Evans and Aaron Glass; University of Washington Press, 420 pp., $50. Return ...

This six-metre wooden plank carved and painted with an image of Sisiyutl, a two-headed sea creature, once adorned the front of a traditional big house in Alert Bay, B.C., but has been in Chicago for ...

An important part of Kwakwaka'wakw history is on its way back home to Alert Bay, B.C., after spending 127 years in Chicago. The wooden plank almost six-metres in length features the carved and painted ...