Crests on Cotton: ‘Souvenir’ T-Shirts and the Materiality of Remembrance among the Kwakwaka’wakw of British Columbia
Abstract
This essay examines the production and circulation of printed T‐shirts as “souvenirs” within Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) communities in British Columbia. Like button blankets in larger Northwest Coast cultures of visual display, such shirts are unique material forms that facilitate individual memories for specific events, collective family and village commemorations, and flexible affiliations at varying levels of identification. Drawing anthropological attention to the materiality of clothing as it mediates social relations, I address a mundane—if hallmark—form of modernity as it is indigenized within a micro‐economy of First Nations gift exchanges, fund‐raisers, and thrift stores, where it visually enables both the remembrance of local events and the re‐membering of social groups.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Scholarship on the history of Northwest Coast Native fashion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries remains limited.
“However, scholarship on the history of Northwest Coast Native fashion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries remains limited (Metcalfe 2010, p. 338;see Glass 2008;Baker and Tortora 2010;Willmott 2010Willmott , 2014;;Green 2013Green , 2016;;Kramer 2015;Allen, forthcoming).”
From Local Fabric: Mid-Century Modernisms, Textile and Fashion Design, and the Northwest Coast, 1940–1967 (2024) · cites this paper as Glass 2008
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Local Fabric: Mid-Century Modernisms, Textile and Fashion Design, and the Northwest Coast, 1940–1967
Allen, L. J. (2024) · Arts · doi:10.3390/arts13020052 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
- Authors
- Glass, A.
- Corresponding author
- Glass, Aaron
- ORCID
- Glass, Aaron
- Venue
- Museum Anthropology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-04-29
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-18
- ISSN
- 0892-8339 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-1379
- OpenAlex
- W2029434738
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 35.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Museum Anthropology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Cultural Identity and Heritage
- Keywords
- Kwakwaka'wakw, Kwakiutl, t-shirts, souvenirs, materiality of memory, commemoration, gift exchange, First Nations, modernity, indigenization, thrift stores, visual presentation, British Columbia
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
