TY - DATA T1 - Forensic visualization of two Kwakwaka’wakw ḱiḱw PY - 2017/01/06 AU - Justin Underhill UR - https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Forensic_visualization_of_two_Kwakwaka_wakw_i_k_i_i_i_w_i_/3814296 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.3814296.v2 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/5940609 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/5940612 KW - Visual culture of the Northwest Coast KW - Kwakwaka’wakw sculpture KW - digital reconstruction KW - phenomenology of depiction KW - neuroarthistory N2 - This study presents a forensic reconstruction of two Kwakwaka’wakw house posts (ḱiḱw) digitally reconstructed and visualized in their original viewing conditions. After demonstrating how the visual parameters of winter ceremonial activity would have significantly altered the appearance of the posts, I use research in optics and neuroscience to explain how light-dependent features of colour perception and face recognition facilitate such transformations. ER -