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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Bella Bella: A Season of Heiltsuk Art
Martha Black
$45.00 CADThis seminal work focuses on Canada’s premier collection of Heiltsuk art, the R.W. Large Collection in the Royal Ontario Museum, illuminating its early twentieth-century origins and the continuity and power of Heiltsuk cultural expression.
Published in 1997
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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Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast
Hilary Stewart
$17.95 CADThis indispensable and beautifully illustrated book is the first to introduce everyone, from the casual observer to the serious collector of Northwest Coast prints, to the forms, cultural background and structures of this highly imaginative art.
Published in 1992
Softcover