Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 995-1045) and index , Introduction :The idea of northwest coast native art , Interpreting cultural symbols of the People from the Shore , Ḥilth Hiitinkis : from the beach , From explorers to ethnographers, 1770-1870 , Thresholds of meaning : voice, time, and epistemology in the archaeological consideration of Northwest Coast art , Objects and knowledge : early accounts from ethnographers and their written records and collecting practices, ca. 1880-1930 , "That which was most important" : Louis Shotridge on Crest art and clan history , Anthropology of art : shifting paradigms and practices, 1870s-1950 , Going by the book : missionary perspectives , The dark years , Surrealists and the New York avant-garde, 1920-60 , Northwest Coast art and Canadian national identity, 1900-50 , Art/craft in the early twentieth century , Welfare politics, late salvage, and indigenous (in)visibility, 1930-60 , Form first, function follows : the use of formal analysis in Northwest Coast art history , Democratization and Northwest Coast art in the modern period : Native emissaries, non-native connoisseurship, and consumption , History and critique of the "renaissance" discourse , Starting from the beginning , Shifting theory, shifting publics : the anthropology of Northwest Coast art in the postwar era , Value added : the Northwest Coast art market since 1965 , "Where mere words failed" : Northwest Coast art and law , Art for whose sake? , "Fighting with property" : the double-edged character of ownership , Museums and Northwest Coast art , Collaborations : a historical perspective , Pushing boundaries, defying categories : Aboriginal media production on the Northwest Coast , Art claims in the age of Delgamuukw , Stop listening to our ancestors , NWC on the up- load : surfing for Northwest Coast art , The material and the immaterial across borders

Note: Includes bibliographical (p. [287]-309) references