[BCMA] Wed. January 27, 2010 at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

LECTURE: Dr. Marie Mauzé
A TALK by Dr. Marie Mauzé
Honourary Director, Bill Reid Foundation

Places and Meanings:
The Peculiar Destiny of a Kwakwak'awakw Headdress 

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 from 5:30pm - 7pm
at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
639 Hornby Street, Vancouver BC
www.billreidgallery.ca  |  604.682.3455

- Admission by Donation -
Sponsored by Scriba International Art Society


Photo courtesy of the U'Mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay
 
Dr. Marie Mauzé will address three important moments in the life of a unique object, a Kwakwak'awakw ceremonial headdress, from the time it was confiscated by the Canadian government in 1922 under dramatic circumstances to its return some 80 years later to the U'Mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay by Aube Elléouët-Breton, the daughter of the French surrealist writer, André Breton. The headdress had been part of her father's collection for almost 40 years.  

Particular attention will be on how a ceremonial piece was turned into an ethnographic artefact by virtue of its confiscation; how it became a chef-d'oeuvre in Breton's studio, and how it was reintegrated into the community as both a ceremonial object and a museum piece during the repatriation ceremony which took place in the Big House in Alert Bay on September 2003. Dr. Mauzé will explore the ways in which both events and agents acted upon the meanings of the object and how the object itself shaped the life of those who handled it. 


Photo courtesy of l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, ADD Paris

Dr. Marie Mauzé is a French scholar in the field of Northwest Coast ethnology, anthropology of art and aesthetics, material culture studies, history of collecting, museums and representation of native societies. She holds a Masters degree in Interdisciplinary studies from Oregon State University, Corvallis. She has conducted research in BC with the Kwakwak'awakw people since 1980, and received her doctorate in anthropology from Paris, École des Hautes en Sciences Sociales (EPHESS) in 1985. Since 2000, she has been a senior researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (Collège de France, Paris). She authored many articles in French and English that were published in scholarly journals, and has edited several books in French and in English. Among them are:
 
Books:

  a.. 1992. Les Fils de Wakai. Une histoire des Lekwiltoq. Paris, Editions Recherche sur les civilisations. 
  b.. 2000. Arts premiers. Le temps de la reconnaissance, Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Découvertes », with Marine Degli.


Edited Books: 

  a.. 1997. Present is Past. Some Uses of Tradition in Native Societies, Marie Mauzé, ed., Lanham, New York, University Press of America.   
  b.. 2004. Coming To Shore. Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions. Edited by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan, Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press (in homage to Claude Lévi-Strauss).


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