{"id":26760,"date":"2025-05-12T11:08:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=26760"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:38:49","slug":"hist-4916b-basket-bead-and-quill-indigenous-customary-arts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/hist-4916b-basket-bead-and-quill-indigenous-customary-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"HIST 4916B: &#8220;Basket, Bead and Quill\u201d: Indigenous Customary Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        HIST 4916B: &#8220;Basket, Bead and Quill\u201d: Indigenous Customary Arts\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HIST 4916B: &#8220;Basket,&nbsp;Bead&nbsp;and<\/strong><strong> Quill\u201d: Indigenous Customary Arts<br>Fall 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructor:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/cu-people\/alex-nahwegahbow\/\">Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Titled after an essay by Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka curator Deborah Doxtator\u2014written for a pivotal 1996 exhibition of the same name at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery\u2014this course traces the histories of Indigenous customary arts, with a focus on work from the Northeast and Great Lakes regions. Topics explored throughout the term include Indigenous perspectives and concepts of artmaking and craft, histories of collecting and display, the politics of value, materiality, care for historical Indigenous belongings, the tourist trade, repatriation\/rematriation, and contemporary Indigenous practices in dialogue with the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Class Format:<\/strong> In-person seminar once per week in a three-hour block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Assessment:<\/strong> TBD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong>&nbsp; Texts will be provided on Ares or the course site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIST 4916B: &#8220;Basket,&nbsp;Bead&nbsp;and Quill\u201d: Indigenous Customary ArtsFall 2025 Instructor: Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow Introduction: Titled after an essay by Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka curator Deborah Doxtator\u2014written for a pivotal 1996 exhibition of the same name at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery\u2014this course traces the histories of Indigenous customary arts, with a focus on work from the Northeast and Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[217,213],"class_list":["post-26760","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-4000-level","cu_page_type-courses"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27407,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26760\/revisions\/27407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=26760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}