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- Title
ENTWINED HISTORIES: The Creation of the Maisie Hurley Collection of Native Art.
- Authors
FORTNEY, SHARON
- Abstract
The article focuses on the North Vancouver Museum and Archives' collection of First Nations art and a non-Native political activist named Maisie Hurley who was the first woman accepted into the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia. Hurley's efforts to establish a Native arts museum, the provenance of the Hurley Rogers Collection, and the role of the Squamish Indian Nation in getting the collection displayed are mentioned. Biographical information is given about Maisie Amy (Campbell-Johnston) Hurley. Her personal history in Wales where she was born, the move to Canada, her marriage to criminal lawyer Tom Hurley, and examples of her activism are mentioned.
- Subjects
BRITISH Columbia; NORTH America; HURLEY, Maisie Amy; NATIVE American art exhibitions; WOMEN political activists; FIRST Nations of Canada; SQUAWMISH (North American people); ART museums &; community; ACTIVISM; PROVENANCE of art; NATIVE American arts
- Publication
BC Studies, 2010, Issue 167, p71
- ISSN
0005-2949
- Publication type
Article