The World is as sharp as a knife : an anthology in honour of Wilson Duff

Frontmatter Front Cover Halftitle Dedication Title Copyright Financial support Cover description Contents People Things Ideas Messages Introduction (Abbott) Prologue: Wilson Duff 1925–1976 (Reid) People A Note on the Contributions of Wilson Duff to Northwest Coast Ethnology and Art (Ames) Publications of Wilson Duff “A Grand Old Man at 35”: Wilson Duff as Curator (Barwick) “People Need Frioends, It Makes Their Minds Strong”: A Coast Salish Curing Rite (Kew & Kew) The Actors and The Setting Preparing to Work Finding The Trouble: A Diagnosis The Curing The Aftermath Conclusions Mungo Martin, Carver of the Century (Duff) WIlson Duff: He Used to Call Us Together (Hunt, Hunt, & Hunt) Wilson Duff: A Tribute (Clutesi) Some Thoughts about Wilson Duff (Hamilton) Tribute of The Kitwancool (Williams) Wilson Duff and Native Land Claims (Berger) The Changing Status of Haida Women: An Ethnohistorical and Life History Approach (Blackman) Male and Female in Traditional Haida Society Life Cycle Economics Ceremonial Division of Labour Cultural Specialists Cultural Values Culture Contact and Sex Roles The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Maritime Trade The Contact Culture in Mid-century Victoria The Population Decline and After Concluding Remarks Bibliography Sebassa’s Men (Mitchell) Bibliography Things Wilson Duff (1925–1976): His Contributions to the Growth of Archaeology in British Columbia (Borden) References Stone Clubs from the Skeena River Area (Duff) Clubs from the Cache Additional Clubs from the Upper Skeena Clubs from Metlakatla Stone Clubs in Tsimshian Tradition Summary and Comparisons Club Types Art Style Conclusions Bibliography A “Hagwilget” Club from England (Abbott & King) Description Comparisons References Ninstins Notebook: A Personal Account of an Expedition in 1957 to Salvage Haida Totem Poles at Ninstints (Smyly) Notes on the Thompson Winter Dwelling (Laforet & York) Foreword Abstract Body Conclusion References Sea Levels and Archaeology on the Northwest Coast (Duff) Bedrock and Boulder Bowls (Hill) Descriptive List of the Bowls Columbia River 1. Tsigaglalal bowls 2. Fisher’s Landing bowl 3. Horsethief Lake State Park bowls 4. Maryhill bowls Gulf of Georgia and Lower Fraser River 5. Browning Harbour bowl 6. Bedwell Harbour bowls 7. Pender Canal bowl 8. Saturna Beach bowl 9. Georgeson Bay bowls 10. Ganges Harbour bowl 11. Fulford Harbour bowl 12. Drummond bowl 13. Bridgman bowl 14. Parminter Point bowl 15. May John bowl 16. Thousand Steps bowl 17. Hammond bowls 18. Degnen Bay bowls 19. Englishman River bowl 20. Cape Mudge bowl 21. Dogfish Bay bowl Central Coast 22. Meadow Island bowl 23. Schultze bowl Venn Passage, Prince Rupert 24. Pike Island bowl 25. Crippen Cove bowls 26. Roberson Point bowl Bedrock and Boulder Bowls: A Summary of Traits Discussion References Notes on the Iconography of the Haida Moon (Hoover) Introduction Data References The Killer Whale Copper: A Chief’s Memorial to His Son (Duff) Coppers The Copper “Maʼhaynootsi” History of the Copper The Equation of Copper: In memory of Wilson Duff (de Widerspach-Thor) 1. Copper as artifact/Copper as symbol 2. Copper as an object: shape-object Aesthetic Characteristics/Physical Components Range of Dispersion 3. Speculation on a shape: symbol-object Conclusion References Will the Real Charles Edenshaw Please Stand Up?: The Problem of Attribution in Northwest Coast Indian Art (Holm) Significant Characteristics Six Haida Artists Charles Edensaw Edensaw’s Sculpture John Robson John Cross Tom Price The Master of the Chicago Settee Is Attribution Really Possible? References Thoughts on the Nootka Canoe (Duff) References Ideas The World is as Sharp as a Knife: Meaning in Northwest Coast Art (Duff) References Cosmic Equations in Northwest Coast Indian Art (MacDonald) The Background to the Problem Shamanic Cosmology on the Northwest Coast Coppers as Cosmograms Summary and Conclusion References Trails of Meaning (Ridington) References Four Kwakiutl Themes on Isolation (S. Reid) References Trois Souveniers de Wilson Duff (Lévi-Strauss) Three Memories of Wilson Duff (Lévi-Strauss, tr. M. Layton) Stone Mask Reunion (Stewart) For Wilson: As a Contribution tot he Conversation (Ridington) “Seeing” in Stone: Tsimshian Masking and the Twin Stone Masks (Halpin, ill. Sheehan) Power 1. Shamanism 2. Initiation 3. Personal power demonstrations 3a. Chief’s perosnal power names 4. Reception halait 5. Chief’s power demonstration Halait Art and Artists The Data Naxnox Names and the Wearing of Masks Conclusion References Messages Mungo Martin: Sea Grizzly Bear Roy Vickers: Eagle—Full Circle Bob Davidson: Mighty Mouse Lives Tony Hunt: The Kwa-Gulth Housefront Richard Hunt: Kwa-Gulth Man The Box Painting by the “Master of the Black Field” (B. Reid) Yahtshulthaht (Hupquatchew) Poems by Wilson Duff Messages Death is a Lie Spirit Quest Come Seem With Me The World is as Sharp as a Knife False Memory The Mask in the Mirror Frog’s Mirror I Guess I Better Listen to My Mirror The Absolute is Paradox Gleanings I Untitled There Is No Such Thing as Going Too Far Untitled Untitled Untitled Gleanings II Dusk is Dawning November 30, 1974 Tight Rein Loose Rein or Seems Like the Universe Ain’t Never Going to Stop Expanding My 24 Hour Urine Sample by Wilson Duff Hindsight Nothing Comes Only in Pieces (Duff) Poems By Collyne (Bunn) Soft Rain Is That Story Really Happen? God, He Knows Untitled Aux Hleeku Hey, I Think, Are You Drunk? Chinai He Was Crying Yaquexheygoo It’s Not Suppose To Be Salmon Coming Untitled A Raven Story Hu, Hu I Gonna Go for Awhile But Gonna Come Back Not Too Long These Day Granny Swim to the Snow Secrets And Grampa, He Say “Come In” Hush, Little Baby, Don’t You Cry… Untitled Poems By Phyllis Webb Imperfect Sestina Wilson’s Bowl Epilogue: The Eulogy Given at Wilson Duff’s Memorial Service, August 31, 1976 (Burridge) Acknowledgements Back Cover