Willie Seaweed, the Glossary
Willie Seaweed (c. 1873–1967) was a Kwakwaka'wakw chief and wood carver from Canada.[1]
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29 relations: Blunden Harbour, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Canada, Canadian Indian residential school system, Canadian Museum of History, Central Washington University, Charles Edenshaw, Denver Art Museum, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Detroit Institute of Arts, Dzunukwa, ʼNakʼwaxdaʼxw, First Nations in Canada, Glenbow Museum, Kwakʼwala, Kwakwakaʼwakw, Kwakwakaʼwakw art, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Menil Collection, Microsoft, Mungo Martin, Museum of Anthropology at UBC, National Museum of the American Indian, Northwest Coast art, Pacific Northwest, Potlatch, Royal British Columbia Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Totem pole.
- 19th-century Canadian sculptors
- 20th-century First Nations sculptors
- Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw woodcarvers
- Northwest Coast art
Blunden Harbour
Blunden Harbour is a small harbour and native Indian reserve in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (commonly as Burke Museum) is a natural history museum on the campus of the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Canadian Indian residential school system
The Canadian Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples.
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Canadian Museum of History
The Canadian Museum of History (Musée canadien de l’histoire) is a national museum on anthropology, Canadian history, cultural studies, and ethnology in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
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Central Washington University
Central Washington University (CWU) is a public university in Ellensburg, Washington.
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Charles Edenshaw
Charles Edenshaw (–1920) was a Haida artist American Museum of Natural History. (retrieved 3 March 2010) from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Willie Seaweed and Charles Edenshaw are 19th-century Canadian male artists, 19th-century Canadian sculptors, 19th-century First Nations people, 20th-century Canadian male artists, 20th-century First Nations sculptors, Canadian male sculptors and northwest Coast art.
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Denver Art Museum
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado.
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Denver Museum of Nature and Science
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is a municipal natural history and science museum in Denver, Colorado.
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Detroit Institute of Arts
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is a museum institution located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan.
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Dzunukwa
Dzunuḵ̓wa (pronounced "zoo-noo-kwah"), also Tsonoqua, Tsonokwa, Basket Ogress, is a figure in Kwakwakaʼwakw mythology and Nuu-chah-nulth mythology.
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ʼNakʼwaxdaʼxw
The 'Nak'waxda'xw, also known as the Nakoaktok, are an Indigenous nation, a part of the Kwakwaka'wakw, in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, on northern Vancouver Island.
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First Nations in Canada
First Nations (Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.
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Glenbow Museum
The Glenbow Museum is an art and history regional museum in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Kwakʼwala
Kwakʼwala, or Kwak̓wala, previously known as Kwakiutl, is a Wakashan language spoken by about 450 Kwakwakaʼwakw people around Queen Charlotte Strait in Western Canada.
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Kwakwakaʼwakw
The Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw, also known as the Kwakiutl ("Kwakʼwala-speaking peoples"), are one of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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Kwakwakaʼwakw art
Kwakwaka'wakw art describes the art of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of British Columbia. Willie Seaweed and Kwakwakaʼwakw art are northwest Coast art.
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McMichael Canadian Art Collection
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection (MCAC) is an art museum in Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada.
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Menil Collection
The Menil Collection, located in Houston, Texas, refers either to a museum that houses the art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection itself of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs and rare books.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
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Mungo Martin
Chief Mungo Martin or Nakapenkem (lit. Potlatch chief "ten times over"), Datsa (lit. "grandfather"), was an important figure in Northwest Coast style art, specifically that of the Kwakwaka'wakw Aboriginal people who live in the area of British Columbia and Vancouver Island. Willie Seaweed and Mungo Martin are 20th-century Canadian male artists, 20th-century First Nations sculptors, Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw woodcarvers and northwest Coast art.
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Museum of Anthropology at UBC
The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada displays world arts and cultures, in particular works by First Nations of the Pacific Northwest.
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National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian is a museum in the United States devoted to the culture of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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Northwest Coast art
Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.
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Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.
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Potlatch
A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States,Harkin, Michael E., 2001, Potlatch in Anthropology, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., vol 17, pp.
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Royal British Columbia Museum
The Royal British Columbia Museum (or Royal BC Museum), founded in 1886, is a history museum in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Seattle Art Museum
The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as SAM) is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Totem pole
Totem poles (gyáaʼaang) are monumental carvings found in western Canada and the northwestern United States. Willie Seaweed and Totem pole are northwest Coast art.
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See also
19th-century Canadian sculptors
- Alfred Laliberté
- Charles Edenshaw
- George William Hill (sculptor)
- John Cochrane and Brothers
- Léandre Parent
- Louis-Philippe Hébert
- Walter Seymour Allward
- Willie Seaweed
20th-century First Nations sculptors
- Aaron Nelson-Moody
- Annie Niviaxie
- Beau Dick
- Bill Reid
- Brian Jungen
- Calvin Hunt (artist)
- Charles Edenshaw
- Charles W. Elliott
- Clifford Maracle
- Dale Campbell
- Doreen Jensen
- Doug Cranmer
- Elizabeth Nutaraluk Aulatjut
- Ellen Neel
- Freda Diesing
- Frederick Alexcee
- Gerry Marks
- Henry Hunt (artist)
- Jay Simeon
- Jim Hart (artist)
- Joe David
- Joe Hillaire
- Joseph Tehawehron David
- Maudie Rachel Okittuq
- Michael Belmore
- Mungo Martin
- Reg Davidson
- Richard Hunt (artist)
- Robert Davidson (artist)
- Ron Telek
- Roy Henry Vickers
- Simon Charlie
- Susan Point
- Théophile Panadis
- Tony Hunt Sr.
- Walter Harris (artist)
- Willie Seaweed
Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw woodcarvers
- Beau Dick
- Calvin Hunt (artist)
- Doug Cranmer
- Ellen Neel
- Henry Hunt (artist)
- Mungo Martin
- Richard Hunt (artist)
- Stanley C. Hunt
- Tony Hunt Sr.
- Willie Seaweed
Northwest Coast art
- Antalis pretiosa
- Bill Holm (art historian)
- Bill Reid
- Cedar bark textile
- Charles Edenshaw
- Chilkat weaving
- Coast Salish art
- Debra Sparrow
- Dentalium shell
- Dorothy Grant
- Doug Cranmer
- Duane Pasco
- Ellen Neel
- Formline art
- Haida argillite carvings
- Haida ceremonial dance rattle (Indianapolis Museum of Art)
- Haida manga
- Henry Hunt (artist)
- James Schoppert
- Jennie Thlunaut
- Joe David
- Joe Hillaire
- Kwakwakaʼwakw art
- Kwanusila
- Mark Loria Gallery
- Mungo Martin
- Northwest Coast art
- Pacific Northwest canoes
- Ravenstail weaving
- Reg Davidson
- Richard Hunt (artist)
- Robert Davidson (artist)
- Roy Henry Vickers
- Salish weaving
- Simon Charlie
- Stanley C. Hunt
- Talking stick
- Teri Rofkar
- The Raven and the First Men
- Thunderbird (mythology)
- Thunderbird Park (Victoria, British Columbia)
- Tlugwe
- Totem pole
- Totem poles
- Willie Seaweed
- Wooden halibut hook