Bibliographic record
Abstract
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a celebrated contemporary Haida artist whose practice is grounded in the Pacifc Northwest of Canada.In this thought-provoking book, Nicola Levell explores his varied body of work, which includes large-scale public projects, mixed media sculptures and canvases, acrylics, watercolours, ink drawings, ceramics, illustrated publications and especially what is recognized as 'Haida manga'.Levell examines the characteristics and philosophical and ideological backgrounds of these works to convincingly argue that they represent a unique expression of contemporary Indigenous art; one that reveals a complex and sophisticated mediation of many global artistic and cultural movements.The Haida Nation, to which Yahgulanaas belongs, is situated on Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) on the west coast of Canada.The Haida peoples developed a distinctive culture based on the use of rich marine and forest resources, and are especially renowned for their potlatch ceremonies and their sophisticated totem poles, large longhouses, wooden canoes, bentwood boxes, masks and other carved and painted artworks with unique depictions of human and non-human fgures.Like other Northwest Coast peoples, the Haida suffered severe hardships due to settler colonial control as well as infectious diseases, such as smallpox and infuenza brought by European and American traders during the prosperous maritime fur trade between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.They were legally banned from holding potlatch ceremonies from 1885 until 1951, and their totem poles, masks and other items used in ritual ceremonies were confscated by the Canadian government and handed over to museums and other institutions.Furthermore, the government enforced assimilation policies, including residential schooling and Christianization, for all Indigenous peoples in the country.Thus, their cultures and languages faced the threat of extinction during this period.However, the Northwest Coast peoples have creatively rebuilt their traditions through the cultural revitalization movement since the 1950s and the Indigenous rights movement since the 1970s.As this book reveals, in the 1970s, Yahgulanaas emerged as an activist and artist during the Haida Nation's battle for rights and sovereignty.His ideas about and commitment to the Haida and other worlds as an Indigenous person, environmentalist, politician and Indigenous rights activist have played an important role in shaping the issues and objectives of his art.For example, among other subjects, his oeuvre addresses the collective memory of historical colonization; confict; war; social, economic and cultural discrepancies; industrial resource development and identity and climate change.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.575 | 0.393 |
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".