January 11, 2024 |Windspeaker via UVic News
The George Clutesi: ḥašaḥʔap / ʔaapḥii / ʕc̓ik / ḥaaʔaksuqƛ / ʔiiḥmisʔap exhibit, originally displayed in Port Alberni on Tseshaht traditional territory, will soon open at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art. George Clutesi was a scholar, artist, writer, and educator of the Tseshaht First Nation.
The exhibition features a piece by UVic’s hii-ni-naa-sim, Dr. Tommy Happynook, who is also Nuu-chah-nulth from the Huu-ay-aht First Nations. Dr. Happynook’s piece is a screen print, displayed on four drums, of one of Clutesi’s poems.
Dr. Happynook is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UVic. Dr. Happynook’s Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, also, are both from the UVic Department of Anthropology. You can read Dr. Happynook’s thesis and dissertation in our institutional repository, UVicSpace!
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