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Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art under-25 Justice in Paradise details theBy Judith Ostrowitz UBC Press What makes Northwest Coast Native American art authentic? And why,when most of art history is a history of the avant garde, is tradition so deeply valued by contemporary Native American artists and their patrons? In Privileging the Past Judith Ostrowitz approaches these questions through a careful consideration of replicas,reproductions, and creative translations of past forms of Northwest Coast dances, ceremonies, masks,