Understanding Northwest Coast Art
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This easily read book introduces the reader to various symbols, crests and beings depicted in Northwest Coast artworks. Shearer provides brief descriptions of design conventions, elements and differences between cultural groups while explaining the interconnections between art, myth and ceremony.
Published in 2000
Softcover
9 x 6.25 x 0.5"
$22.95 CAD
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This easily read book introduces the reader to various symbols, crests and beings depicted in Northwest Coast artworks. Shearer provides brief descriptions of design conventions, elements and differences between cultural groups while explaining the interconnections between art, myth and ceremony.
Published in 2000
Softcover
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S’abadeb The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists
Barbara Brotherton
$50.00 CADCoast Salish oral traditions, history and artistry from prehistory to the present is captured in this visually stunning book.
A principal at the heart of Salish culture is a reciprocal exchange of physical, spiritual and intangible gifts, including songs, spirit powers, titles, names, food, natural resources and artistic creations. The term for “gifts” in Lushootseed, a Coast Salish dialect, is S’abadeb and this book illuminates the concept by exploring the intersection of art with ceremony, oral traditions, the land, and contemporary realities.
Published in 2008
Softcover
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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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Native American Art
Peter Bolz and Hans-Ulrich Sanner
$55.00 CADThe Collections of the Ethnological Museum Berlin.
The North American collection in the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin ranks among the most important in Europe. Different Native American cultures of the United States and Canada are represented here as well as the peoples of the Arctic.
Published in 1999
Softcover
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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