Victoria Wyatt Explained

Victoria Wyatt (born August 3, 1956) is an ethnographer and art historian specializing in Northwest Coast Native American art.

Wyatt was educated at Kenyon College (BA) and Yale University (MA, M.Phil., Ph.D.). She is a professor in the Department of History in Art at University of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada.^[1]

Her books include Shapes of Their Thoughts: Reflections of Culture Contact in Northwest Coast Indian Art,^[2] and Images from the Inside Passage: An Alaskan Portrait by Winter and Pond(with Lloyd Winter and Percy Pond).^[3] Wyatt taught previously at the University of Washington in Seattle, and served as curator of the Northwest Coast Art collection at the university's Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Victoria Wyatt - Bio. finearts.uvic.ca. University of Victoria. https://web.archive.org/web/20111002024936/http://finearts.uvic.ca/historyinart/faculty/victoria_wyatt_bio.shtml. October 2, 2011. dead.
2. Reviews of Shapes of Their Thoughts:
   • Burton. Charline R.. Summer 1985. Explorations in Sights and Sounds. 89–90. Review. 5. 10.1525/ess.1985.5.1.89. free.
   • Berlo. Janet Catherine. November 1985. 10.2307/3336393. 1. African Arts. 3336393. 82–83. none. 19.
   • Berlo. Janet Catherine. Spring 1986. 10.2307/1183984. 2. American Indian Quarterly. 1183984. 119–125. Recent Scholarship on Northwest Coast Indian Art: A Review Essay. 10.
3. Reviews of Images from the Inside Passage:
   • Naske. Claus-M.. November 1990. 10.2307/969270. 4. Western Historical Quarterly. 969270. 500–501. none. 21.
   • Scherer. Joanna Cohan. Spring 1991. 10.2307/1185154. 2. American Indian Quarterly. 1185154. 266–268. none. 15.
   • Toedtemeier. Terry. Winter 1992–1993. 4. Oregon Historical Quarterly. 20614490. 436–438. none. 93.