Tin cans and machinery
Saving the Sagasand other stuff
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2163112 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynda Jessup (0000-0002-1629-3851, Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-86 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08949468.1999.9966767 |
| OpenAlex | W2025636751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
Although little known today, the 1928 Canadian movie, Saving the Sagas, is an early example of a film recording the presence of the ethnographic fieldworker, in this case, the National Museum of Canada ethnologist Marius Barbeau (1883–1969) at work in the Nisga'a communities along the Nass River in northern British Columbia. This consideration of the film discusses the ways in which it represented those communities, first on its own and then, together with its contemporary Fish and Medicine Men, as part of Nass River Indians, the otherwise lost 1927 film from which the two shorter films were subsequently made. Focusing on the latter film's relationship to government action concerning Aboriginal peoples, it concludes with discussion of the implications of this representation, which was produced originally for the National Museum to be shown first in conjunction with the National Gallery of Canada's 1927 “Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art, Native and Modern.”
Action (physics · Art · Art history · Ethnography · Exhibition · Fish · Fishery · Government (linguistics · Media studies · National museum · Political science · Representation (politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage
A narrow vision
Writing Culture
Aboriginal Peoples and Politics
On Ethnographic Allegory
Colonialism's culture
Observers observed
Geographies of Exclusion
Introduction
Tangled Webs of History
Songs of the Northwest
The Tsimshian
A Narrow Vision
Manliness and Civilization
New Worlds from Fragments
Playing primitive
Photographing the vanishing race
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |