ask two thoughtful ques after watching a video and reading an article

The task:

ask two thoughtful ques regarding the films (the class is art history so make it art history ques)

After the ques, kinda explain the ques with one quote from the reading, and then also talk about the reading in relations to the video a little bit.

Watch:

Totem: The Return of the G’psgolox Pole

Gil Cardinal, 1h 10min, 2003.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/totem_the_return_of_the_gpsgolox_pole/ (Links to an external site.)

Article: (choose one of the following)

UBC Museum of Anthropology. “Returning the Past: Repatriation of First Nations Cultural

Property.” Https://Moa.ubc.ca, UBC Museum of Anthropology, 2008: pg 3 & 23-27.

https://moa.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/TeachingKit-Repatriation.pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Jessiman, Stacey R. “The Repatriation of the G’psgolox Totem Pole: A Study of its Context, Process, and Outcome.” International Journal of Cultural Property,vol. 18, no. 3, 2011. HeinOnline. Pg 377-379. (at the start and end of each header on the subsequent page.)

https://heinonline-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/injculpy18&i=388(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

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Repatriation of Art

Do native communities have a claim on ownership of artefacts that only gained value once they had been taken away from the native communities in question?

The native communities do have a claim on the cultural property lost to colonialists in various periods through history. According to the UBC Museum of Anthropology, most of these forms of art have been misrepresented in the museums where they are placed on display, in effect giving society wrong information about the said art’s existence (3).

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