Inside the Collections: Pacific Northwest Coast Peoples

As ugly as it is to see the items not returned today, Mr Boaz had good reason to collect some of these items. Missionaries were working with many of these communities and were known to destroy items that had religious significance, so in a way he was trying to preserve them. He also was one of the few, white voices at the time arguing for rights for aboriginal people. He was far from perfect of course but at the time he was considered an eccentric and wasn't taken seriously.

2:34 this isn’t true. I’m from Klukwan, Alaska (the capital of the Tlingit tribe) and Chilkat blankets are worn/woven by any tribal member who wishes to do so, not only people of “chiefly rank.” Chilkat blankets are one of the most common forms of our dance regalia, alongside button blankets and tunics.

Give them back

K but how about returning all of these artifacts to the tribes and let them decide what should be done with them.

I as a Native American believe most of our traditional property was either stolen from grave sites, tribal people, our bought for minimal costs like Alcatraz which was paid I was informed for a few beads??? Alcatraz was also a prison for aboriginal people? I have to believe as a person of faith that God is just and he will repay what's been stolen...

Thank You!!! I needed this to study for a test!!!

The AMNH makes a lot of awesome videos and virtual tours about its traveling exhibits, fossil halls and dinosaur and other prehistoric animal fossils, human origins and evolution, diorama halls and animal taxidermies and specimens and the space exhibits and astronomy, as well as paleontology, marine biology, mammalogy, paleoanthropology, ornithology and astronomy that I have watched and enjoyed, but they need to make more videos and virtual tours focusing on its human cultural halls and anthropology, but this is primarily because the AMNH is a natural history museum only tackling information on animals and nature and Earth’s history and paleontology, marine biology and astronomy and human evolution, the Met Museum is meanwhile an art museum that tackles more information on human history, art and ancient cultures. But I love both subjects overall.

I'd love to see more from t his collection. such beautiful works of art. :3

2:28 this is not true. The people who made the chilkat blanket first was my nation! (Tsimshian) 2:34 This is also not true! It was used for anyone, if they wanted to wear it. In today’s world, it’s not something you wear everyday. You only wear it in events or ceremonies.

the art is so pretty! (:

To see this art in a museum is one thing, but to see it as it was meant to be seen; danced in the fire light of the big house is magical. The masks come alive!

Awesome collection, stollen but safe.

I'd love to see more videos!

Alot of innacuracies in what they say and the way they pronounce the names are wrong. Another small problem with this is that british Colombia is Haida Gwaii, might as well say the proper name if your going to keep stolen artifacts

I love native art! Never thought about it till now, but Raven is the equivalent of Prometheus in Greek myth, who also brought fire/light to man.

I had a native friend (now deceased) who was taking artifacts out of museums and returning them to the rightful tribal owners. He finally got caught and was sentenced to 15yrs in the state prison.

Just absolutely super dupery important :D

should return them to their rightful families and tribes

I met Northwest Coast Culture thanks to the novel I Heard The Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven.

Tsimpshian were the first to make Chilkat robes.