By Mary M. Brooks, UAS Student Intern
Title: Charting Material Memories Research Project Recordings Collection, 2010
ID: MC/027
Primary Creator: McDonald, Fiona
Extent: 1.0 Boxes
Date Acquired: 04/01/2011
Subjects: Tlingit art., Tlingit Indians--History.
Languages: English
This collection consists of twenty-one audiovisual recordings of interviews conducted by University College London doctoral candidate in Anthropology, Fiona McDonald, during her tenure as a Sealaska Heritage Institute Visiting Scholar from June to November 2010. McDonald’s academic research project in 2010 was entitled “Charting Material Memories: an Ethnography of Visual and Material Responses to Woollen Trade Blankets in the Pacific Northwest of North America and Aotearoa/New Zealand.” The project’s emphasis was grounded material anthropology with research focusing on the cultural significance of button robes/blankets in the Southeast Native Alaskan cultures and the Maori culture of New Zealand.
While a Sealaska Visiting Scholar McDonald interviewed primarily Tlingit individuals who make, wear, or possess Tlingit button robes. The interviewees provided information concerning the importance of button robes as At.oow, worn as regalia at a ku.éex, or potlatch, and at cultural events or celebrations. The interviewees also provide a history of how the robes generally, or specifically, came into being, such as who made their robe, for what purpose and the process by which the robes are made a cultural piece. A dialog on what constitutes these robes as cultural objects or art is partially addressed in the interviews.
Repository: Sealaska Heritage Institute Archives
Use Restrictions: Intellectual Properties Note: Since SHI adheres to the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, and since we desire to honor Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian traditional cultural belief that clans retain the intellectual property rights to clan stories or songs, patrons who use or study clan songs or stories are asked to credit clan ownership to stories and songs.
Acquisition Source: Fiona McDonald
Acquisition Method: The material in the collection was donated to SHI on April 1, 2011 by Fiona McDonald.
Preferred Citation: MC 27, Box #, Item #, Charting Material Memories Research Project Recordings Collection, Sealaska Heritage Institute Archives, Juneau, AK
Item 1: DVD recording, with copy, of interview with Catrina Mitchell. “Catrina Mitchell” is hand-written across the top of the disc and “© SHI 2010” is hand-written across the bottom.
Item 2: DVD recording, with copy, of interview with Helen McNeil. “Helen McNeil” is hand-written across the top of the disc and “© 2010 SHI” is hand-written across the bottom.
Item 3: DVD recording, with copy, of interview with Roby Littlefield. “ Roby Littlefield” is hand-written across the top of the disc and “© 2010 SHI” is written across the bottom.
Item 4: DVD recording, with copy, of interview with Cyril George. “Cyril George” is hand-written across the top of the disc and “© SHI” is hand-written across the bottom of the discs.
Item 5: DVD recording, with copy, of interview with Gail Dabaluz, Libby Watanabe and Geraldine Williams. “Gail Dabaluz Libby Watanabe Geraldine Williams” is hand-written across the top of the disc and “©2010 SHI” across the bottom.
Item 6: DVD recording, with copy, of interview #1 with Edwina White. “Edwina White” is hand-written across the top of the disc and “© 2010 SHI DVD #1” is hand-written across the bottom.
Item 7: DVD recording, with copy, of interview #2 with Edwina White. “Edwina White” is hand-written across the top of the disc and “© SHI DVD #2” is hand-written across the bottom.
Item 8: DVD recording, with copy, of interview #1 with Clarissa Rizal. “Clarissa Rizal” is hand-written across the top of the disc and “© 2010 SHI DVD #1” is hand-written across the bottom.
Item 9: DVD recording, with copy, of interview #2 with Clarissa Rizal. “Clarissa Rizal” is hand-written across the top of the disc and “©2010 SHI DVD #2” is hand-written across the bottom.
Item 10: DVD recording of interview with Norman Sarabia. “Norman Sarabia” is hand-written across the top of the disc and “© 2010 SHI” is hand-written across the bottom.
Item 11: DVD recording of interview with Wanda Culp “Wanda Culp” is hand-written across the top of the disc and “© SHI” is hand-written across the bottom.
Item 12: DVD recording of interview with Anita Lafferty. “Anita Lafferty” is hand-written across the top of the disc and “Sealaska Heritage Institute 2010” is hand-written across the bottom.
