Billy and the Chiefs:The Complete Banned Collection
Billy and the Chiefs: The Complete Banned Collection is an installation of 67 elk-hide drums, painted with abstracted Kwakwaka’wakw formline and design elements to look like vinyl LPs and EPs in motion. Broken down into nine specific "sessions", Billy and the Chiefs: The Complete Banned Collection acts as a conceptual record for the amendment to the Indian Act, known as the Potlatch Ban. The Indian Act is an oppressive bill of law of that subjugates and oppresses Indigenous people in Canada, and is still a bill of law today.