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Curve!: Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast
Dana Claxton and Curtis Collins
CA$45.00“Indigenous women on the Northwest Coast carve poles, panels, masks, bowls, and other sculptures, all intertwined with traditional knowledge. Published in conjunction with and exhibit at the Audain Art Museum, Curve! celebrates the artwork and voices of more than a dozen creatives who bring together the curve of the wood and the curve of the blade.
Featuring texts by Dana Claxton, Skeena Reece, and Marika Echachis Swan; interviews with Curtis Collins with Mary Anne Barkhouse and Dale Marie Campbell; and artworks by Cherish Alexander, Stephanie Anderson, Morgan Asoyuf, Dale Marie Campbell, Freda Diesing, Doreen Jensen, Marianne Nicolson, Ellen Neel, Arlene Ness, Susan Point, Melanie Russ, Cori Savard, Marika Echachis Swan, and Veronica Waechter.”
Hardcover
Published in 2024
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Caribou, Thunderbird & Sisiutl Historic Basket
Artist Unknown
CA$2,500.00Circa 1910
Unidentified artist
Nuu chah nulth Nation
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Salmon & Dip Net Bowl
Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass
CA$125.00Porcelain, Engraved with Interior Glaze
On Patrick Leach’s pottery, the final touches are carefully hand-carved landscapes, geometric designs, and scenes borrowed from ancient rock paintings called pictographs. These designs are either replicas of, or inspired by, the red ochre pictographs found in Stein Valley near Leach’s childhood home. Leach frequently employs contrasting bands of red ochre glaze to represent earth, blue for sky, yellow for sunrise or orange for sunset.
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Raven & Eagle Feast Bowl
Artist Unknown
Price upon requestGitxsan Artist – signed “NH”
Private CollectionAlderwood, Abalone shell
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Thunderbird & Frog Pendant
Len McGookin
CA$450.00Sterling silver, Oxidized, Engraved
Circa 1992
Signed: LKM 92
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The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast First Nations Second Edition
Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass
CA$65.00“An incredible archive of paintings by Northwest Coast artists, allowing the viewer to explore the creativity, energy, and depths these artists have achieved.” – Robert Davidson
In the two decades since its initial publication, The Transforming Image has become a must-have book for scholars ad appreciators of Northwest Coast art, and, importantly, for First Nations artists, who have found inspiration in its wealth of images and ideas. A new edition of this groundbreaking volume makes its invaluable findings accessible once again.
Its hundreds of photos of historical Indigenous artworks – objects and belongings now widely dispersed in collections around the world – are the extraordinary result of the Museum of Anthropology’s Image Recovery Project, which used infrared photography to reveal paintings on historical Northwest Coast objects whose surfaces are obscured by the patina of age. The project assembled images of nearly a thousand different paintings over its two-decade run, and worked with contemporary First Nations artists to reconstruct the compositions and understand their original context and significance, which the authors discuss in their insightful and engaging commentary. The rediscovered artworks radically deepened the understanding of Northwest Coast First Nations painting, including techniques, materials, imagery, and the creativity of generations of ancestor artists.
A new preface by Karen Duffek speaks to what the book has helped set in motion, and how First Nations artists today are taking this art forward in new and compelling directions.
Hardcover
Published in 2022
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Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse & Aldona Jonaitis
CA$36.95Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively, from demonstrating kinship connections to manifesting spiritual power. By centering voices that uphold Indigenous priorities, integrating the expertise of Indigenous knowledge holders about their artistic heritage, and questioning current institutional practices, these essays “unsettle” Northwest Coast art studies. The volume exemplifies respectful and relational engagement with Indigenous art and advocates for more accountable scholarship and practices within the discipline of art history.
Katherine Bunn-Marcuse is director of the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art, curator of Northwest Native art at the Burke Museum, and associate professor of art history at the University of Washington.
Aldona Jonaitis is the former Director of the University of Alaska Museum of the North and a professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Published in 2020
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Imbricated Basket with Saint Joseph Sunday Missal Book
Salish Artist
Price upon requestCedar root, Cherry bark, Hide
Early 1900’s
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Coiled Basket with Animal Motifs
Nuu-chah-nulth Artist
Price upon requestBear grass, Cedar bark, Natural dyes
Provenance: Landsberg Collection
c. 1900
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