An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, this book explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories.

Beverly Lemire is professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.

Laura Peers is professor emerita of museum anthropology, curator emerita (Americas collections), Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, and adjunct professor in the School for the Study of Canada and the Department of Anthropology, Trent University.

Anne Whitelaw is associate professor of art history at Concordia University