Dan Savard. IMAGES FROM THE LIKENESS HOUSE. RBCM, 2010.
Fascinating images of Indigenous people and buildings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in BC and Alaska. This book was an award-winner at the time of publication. Now, it seems to show us a visual record of how much we have learned in the ensuing dozen years. Where this book is organized around the white photographers who took the photographs, today to this reader anyway, a more Indigenous-centred or geographic grouping would be more respectful of the subjects. Especially because so many of the photos were used as advertising for the studios. No mention is made of consent from the subjects or shared profits.
I was most interested to find a brief info about James Teit, a Scot living in Spences Bridge who worked with Franz Boas and others. Sometime I used to hear the term "Teit people" and I was always curious as to whom the name referred.
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