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The way home

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  • Author: Neel, David
    Contributor: Palmer, Carolyn Butler
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    2019
    Summary:

    David Neel was an infant when his father, a Kwakwaka'wakw artist, died, triggering events that would separate him from the traditions of his homeland. When the aspiring photographer saw a mask carved by an ancestor in a Texas museum twenty-five years later, the encounter inspired him to return home and follow in his father's footsteps. Drawing on memory, legend, and his own art, Neel recounts his struggle to reconnect with his culture and become an accomplished Kwakwaka'wakw artist. His memoir is a testament to the strength of the human spirit to overcome great obstacles and to the power and endurance of Indigenous culture and art.

    Contents:
    • Foreword / Carolyn Butler-Palmer
    • Preface
    • A note on terminology
    • Beginnings: far from home
    • Photography: transformation
    • Masks: homecoming
    • Interlude: paintings
    • Lessons: chiefs and elders
    • Interlude: prints
    • Resurgence: the great canoes
    • Interlude: jewellery
    • Home again: coming full circle
    • Acknowledgments
    • Photo credits.
    Original Publisher: Vancouver, Toronto, On Point Press, a UBC Press imprint
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780774890410
    Collection(s)/Series: First Nations Communities Read 2020