Northwest Coast Art

I'm loving this course with Kerry Mason at UVic. During our first session we saw so many amazing examples of all sorts of things. I really know so little about this topic and it's exciting to have a whole new thing ahead of me. It was interesting to learn that the Potlatch ban in B.C. was really the Federal Government's action mainly because of pressure from missionaries and also the fish canning companies since Potlatch time was in October and they lost large numbers of their workforce during the prime canning season. It seems and is apparently backed up by Hansard reports of the time that the provincial government did understand and support the Potlatch system.

Isn't it great that the new twenty dollar bill has Bill Reid's work on it!