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Documentary
We Wear Our History: Northwest Coast Regalia
Stories
A 55-minute video documentary by a team of Northwest Coast
Alaska Natives began its research phase in 2004, presenting
a series of vignettes, personal and clan Regalia stories by
tribal members of Southeast Alaska and Canada including the
Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian. In these vignettes, Northwest
Coast tribes share unique regalia of robes and objects that
show clan ties, folklore, family stories, dreams, and detail
descriptions of regalia design, creation and ownership. This
is a 6-year ongoing research project. Click
here to visit the website for information
about the Northwest Coast Native Dance Regalia Project.
Rhonda Mann and Donna Foulke are signing
up Tom Jimmie Jr. (T.J.) who was one of the first participants
to be photographed and documented at the "white
tent" Photo Booth set up on the lawn behind Centennial
hall during the three days at Celebration 2004. |
Photo Booth during
"Celebration 2004"
Over 100 participants were photographed and documented
during the first Regalia Project Photo Booth at Celebration
2004. Photographers Donna Foulke & Clarissa Hudson (Foulke
& Hudson) truly appreciate everyone who came out to be
photographed and documented and who walked away with photographs
of themselves and/or family members. Foulke & Hudson wish
to express their thanks to the participants for their patience
and understanding during the first year; for sure, there were
many "bugs to work out!"
Interviewer, Liana Wallace Young interviews
Jackie Strong wearing a Chilkat robe woven by Jennie
Thlunaut.
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The Dance Regalia Documentary Project is sponsored by Artstream
Cultural Resources with grant support from the Alaska Humanities
Forum. Clarissa also received the Smithsonian's National Museum
of the American Indian "Visiting Artist" Fellowship
Award for researching and documenting the collections of Northwest
Coast Native dance regalia (with an emphasis on Chilkat weaving)
at various museums on the East Coast in November 2006. Click
here to read the narrative about her research.
Click
here for Juneau Empire news article on "Dance
Regalia Documentary Project" June 2004.
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