Jim Hart

Masken karvades under stor uppmärksamhet på museet av haida-konstnären Jim Hart, god vän till religionshistorikern (Stockholms universitet)-nordvästkustexperten Carl Johan Gurt, och utgör ett kompliment till museets bestånd av nutida indiankost från nordvästkusten samt från övriga "the Americas". Masken är inte minst ett exempel på hur olika indianfolk och enskilda indianpersoner ställer sig till skapandet av t.ex. masker för icke specifikt religiöst-ceremoniellt bruk. Litteratur: utöver den mångfald av publikationer, inklusive Native American Art Magazine, om nutida indiankonst från Nordamerika, se Carl Johan Gurts artiklar om nordvästkustindianernas konst i Fjärde Världen samt Carl Johan Gurts bidrag om nordvästkusten (Jim Harts mask avbildad och kommenterad) i museets antologi Med Världen i Kappsäcken (2002; Wilhelm Östberg, red.). Se även bl.a: Steven C. Brown, Native Visions, Evolution in Northwest Coast art from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century (1998); Ralph T. Coe, Lost and Found Traditions, Native American Art 1965-1985 (1986); Christian F. Feest, Native Arts of North America (1980); Bill Holm and Bill Reid, Indian Art of the Northwest Cost (1975); Gerhard Hoffman, ed, Indianisches Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert (1985); David W. Penney, North American Indian Art (2004); Vancouver Art Gallery, Raven
Travelling, Two Centuries of Haida Art (2006). SB, 2011-01-18.

The mask was carved, in the presence of many visitors, at the museum by the Haida artist Jim Hart, good friend of Carl Johan Gurt, Swedish historian of religions (Stockholm University) and Northwest Coast expert. The mask is on display in the museum´s North America exhibition, opened 2008, and the mask is a compliment to the museum´s pool of contemporary Native American arts and crafts from the Northwest Coast and from the rest of the Americas. The mask is also an example of how different Native American peoples and Native American individuals/artists may approach the making and display of e.g. masks for specifically non religious-ceremonial purposes. Litterature: apart from the many publications, including e.g. Native American Art Magazine, about contemporary Native American art of North America and of the rest of the Americas; see Carl Johan Gurt´s articles about the Northwest Coast Native American peoples and cultures in the Swedish magazine Fjärde Världen ("The Forth World"); see also Carl Johan Gurt´s contributions in the museum´s anthology Med Världen i Kappsäcken (2002, Wilhelm östberg, ed.). See also e.g.: Steven C. Brown, Native Visions, Evolution in Northwest Coast art from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century (1998); Ralph T. Coe, Lost and Found Traditions, Native American Art 1965-1985 (1986); Christian F. Feest, Native Arts of North America (1980); Bill Holm and Bill Reid, Indian Art of the Northwest Cost (1975); Gerhard Hoffman, ed, Indianisches Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert (1985); David W. Penney, North American Indian Art (2004); Vancouver Art Gallery, Raven
Travelling, Two Centuries of Haida Art (2006). SB, 2011-01-18.