<scp><i>coppers from the hood</i></scp>: Haida Manga Interventions and Performative Acts
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract In the traditional indigenous economy of the Northwest Coast, copper shields were a highly prized form of material and symbolic wealth. In many cases, they were requisitioned by colonial authorities and became part of the ethnographic holdings of museums. Challenging this history of appropriation and keeping, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas created a series of artworks, Haida Manga Coppers from the Hood (2007), for the exhibition Meddling in the Museum: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. As site‐specific interventions, these Coppers were designed to subvert dominant narratives and practices that circumscribe ownership of cultural heritage and concomitantly suppress indigenous rights, epistemologies, and histories. This institutional or indigenized critique was not only evinced in the display and materiality of the Coppers from the Hood but also iterated and amplified in the “performative acts,” such as the First Nation speeches delivered at the exhibition opening. This article explores the interplay between objects and acts, between the tangible and intangible expressions of museum anthropology that not only index but also instantiate social relations, indigenous identities, intercultural histories, and the politics of ownership and belonging. I argue that through these types of material and performative expressions the museum can be understood as a “site of persuasion” (Dubin 2011:478; Morphy 2006:473), wherein indigenous peoples, including activists and artists, continue their struggle to reclaim and animate their cultural heritage, in old and new forms. [Haida Manga, performative acts, indigenized critique]
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".