Northwest Carving Traditions
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Totem poles, drums, rattles, boxes, and canoes join the many masks displayed in over 400 beautiful photographs.
Master carvers, as well as emerging artists, are featured in this text which guides readers to better understand the complex societies of the Northwest Coast First Nations peoples and the changing art styles.
Published in 1999
Hardcover
12 x 9.25 x 1"
$108.00 CAD
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Totem poles, drums, rattles, boxes, and canoes join the many masks displayed in over 400 beautiful photographs.
Master carvers, as well as emerging artists, are featured in this text which guides readers to better understand the complex societies of the Northwest Coast First Nations peoples and the changing art styles.
Published in 1999
Hardcover
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The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of Haida Gwaii
Robert Bringhurst and Ulli Steltzer
$39.95 CADUlli Steltzer’s photographs, taken over five years, record the genesis and development of the Black Canoe and of each creature within it. The images offer insight into the sculpture’s final form and reveals many aspects of the work otherwise lost forever to view.
Published in 1995
Softcover
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Argillite: Art of the Haida
Leslie Drew and Robert Wilson
$40.00 CADSome of the last copies of this book are available at our gallery as it is no longer being published.
Drew and Wilson outline the history of the Haida in relation to argillite carving.
In a key chapter, “A World Apart”, the reader is led through a tangle of Haida beliefs and legends seen through the artist’s mind as he sought to express the world around him.
The technical aspects of argillite – its nature, how it was quarried, the relationship of the carver to his material, clues to a carver’s identity through his carving style, the transformation of argillite art with the coming of the [Europeans], and its resurgence alongside contemporary art are detailed.
Argillite is study that will appeal to collectors, students of [First Nations] art and culture, and anyone interested in recapturing the formidable and legendary consciousness of this ancient people.
Published in 1980
Hardcover
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Looking at Totem Poles
Hilary Stewart
$17.95 CADLooking at Totem Poles is an indispensable guide to 110 poles which exist in outdoor locations in coastal British Columbia and Alaska. Hilary Stewart provides an account to the various poles types, their function and symbolism and how they were raised.
Published in 1993
Softcover
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Cedar
Hilary Stewart
$29.95 CADHilary Stewart explains through her vivid descriptions, 550 drawings and 50 photographs, the tools and techniques used, as well as the superbly crafted objects and their uses in the context of daily and ceremonial life. Anecdotes, oral history and the accounts of early explorers, traders, missionaries and native elders highlight the text.
Published in 1995
Softcover