Contested Ethnic in two kwakwaka’wakw museums

Contesting Art: Art, Politics and Identity in the Modern World

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 85-130

  Saunders, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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