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Doug Smarch describes his work as conceptual, made for a tribe he invented and open to various interpretations viewers bring to an object that looks �authentically native.� In fact the feather robe is a homeage to the repetitious labour of cleaning, since it is made out of feather dusters. Smarch�s stories evolve both from making the work and talking about it. He is of Tlingit origin and from the village of Teslin. He is a recent graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute.