 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Sweet dreams of pavilion's salad days ; Visitors who see the Pavilion building in Torquay may be excused for thinking it is Torquay's main theatre. It stands like a scene from the past with a central dome covered in copper and a full sized figure of Britannia on top. Two small domes feature Mercury, the messenger - God of eloquence.
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Visitors who see the Pavilion building in Torquay may be excused
for thinking it is Torquay's main theatre. It stands like a scene
from the past with a central dome covered in copper and a full sized
figure of Britannia on top. Two small domes feature Mercury, the
messenger - God of eloquence.
It is surely unique in its style and one feels it is now sadly
lacking its potential. It exudes the ambience of the 1920s -
imagining the two superb Art Nouveau cast octagonal bandstands with
the Torquay municipal orchestra soothing us with the sweet musical
sounds of the era.
With the revived ...
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The storage box of tradition: Kwakiutl art, anthropologists, and museums. .(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; JACKNIS, IRA. The storage box of tradition: Kwakiutl art, anthropologists, and museums, 1881-1981. xvi...North America. Jacknis focuses on the Kwakwaka'wakw ['Kwakiutl'], whose art is often conflated with that of more northern...
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Kwakiutl artist selected (David Neel to be displayed at Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona).
Newspaper article from: Windspeaker
; ...Vancouver resident impressed the selection committee: he was a unanimous choice for the show which will run until this July. The Kwakiutl photographer and carver will exhibit seven diptych photographs and three of his contemporary masks. In the past his work has...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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INDIANS GET TO TELL THEIR TALE
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; ...titled "Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch." The reason for this, says...herself is recognized as a world expert on Kwakiutl culture, in May of 1990 she invited a contingent of 10 Kwakiutl Indians from British Columbia to confer...
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ON EXHIBIT: They Could Dish It Out
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...perfected the art of warfare. When the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Coast go to battle...wall-to-wall wonderland of magnificent Kwakiutl carvings and costumes. Strange because Kwakiutl customs go so oddly against the grain of...
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Art; THE MAGIC REMAINS ; Natural History's Inspired Show of Indian Potlatch
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...the indigenous Canadians known as the Kwakiutl - were still resisting "inch by inch...in 1883 - today it seems heroic - the Kwakiutl kept reviving the old custom that shimmers...History. "Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch" opens with a movie, a 1914...
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Helen Codere, 91; anthropologist studied Rwanda, Pacific Northwest Helen Codere, 91; anthropologist studied Rwanda, Pacific Northwest
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...1950s and 1960s, first among the Kwakiutl societies of the Pacific Northwest...Museum, was her 1966 editing of "Kwakiutl Ethnography," by the late Franz Boas, her mentor whose work among the Kwakiutl she continued. Boas, who died in...
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Canadian discovery. (Quadra Island)(includes travel tips)
Magazine article from: Country Living
; ...Wai-Kai, or Cape Mudge, band of the Kwakiutl Nation, this refuge offers visitors an education...insight into the traditional heritage of the Kwakiutl people. Owned by the Cape Mudge Kwakiutl, this handcrafted lodge evokes ancestral...
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FILM FESTIVAL ON APRIL 12-15 TO CELEBRATE RACE, IDENTITY, REVOLUTION
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...mass marketed film community," said Kwakiutl Dreher, assistant professor of English...Superfly," panel discussion moderated by Kwakiutl Dreher; 7-9:30 p.m., film screening...Center, 313 N. 13th Street.Contact: Kwakiutl Dreher, 402/472-1816; Sara Pipher...
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American Indian Dance Theatre. (Joyce Theater, December 14, 1993-January 2, 1994)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; ...Red Cedar Bark Ceremony (Tseka) from the Kwakiutl people of British Columbia, was banned...performances at the Joyce marked the first time the Kwakiutl ritual dances had been performed by non-Kwakiutl Indians, and, to mark the occasion, Bill...
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 "Mosaic (Winnipeg)")
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The Western Cannon: The Books and School of the Ages.
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
; ...anthropologist Franz Boas often spoke of a Kwakiutl man who had come to work with him in...felt transferred into the universe of Kwakiutl fairy-tales. (142) These scenes...New York Public Library and Boas's Kwakiutl friend are each seen in terms that might...
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