Potlatch

Art and Identity of the Kwa Kwaka'Wakw: Box of Treasures

Produced by the U'Mista Cultural Society
Filmmaker: Dennis Wheeler
Narrator: Gloria Crammer Webster
This film focuses on Kwa Kwaka'Wakw identity as expressed in their art and ceremonies. In this short film clip your will hear perspectives of loss as a result of the Canadian governments ban on potlatching from an old woman, a mask carver, a fisherman, politicians and Gloria Crammer Webster. The film centers on Alert Bay, where many Kwa Kwaka'Wakw now reside and have "begun the task of reclaiming all that was lost"

Film Clip

This clip is part of the supplemental film clips in the text book Seeing Anthropology, cited as follows;
Heider,Karl G.
2004 Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film.
Pearson Education Inc, Boston MA

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