Saturday, November 15: 2:00 pm

In honor of the sesquicentennial of the birth of Franz Boas, the Mead revisits the culture of the Kwakwaka'wakw, possibly the most heavily studied First Nation peoples. Chief Bill Cranmer and dancer William Wasden, Jr. from the U'mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay, British Columbia, along with AMNH anthropologist Aaron Glass, will present clips from Glass's In Search of the Hamat'sa (2004) and Chuck Olin's Box of Treasures (1983), which when viewed together expose the changing face of anthropological studies and testify to the tenacity of this culture threatened with extinction.