Totem Poles And Masks Art Of Northwest Coast Tribes

Author : Mary Nolan
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477726152
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Totem Poles and Masks: Art of Northwest Coast Tribes written by Mary Nolan and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Totem Poles and Masks: Art of the Northwest Coast Tribes is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.3 and Literacy.L.3.1a. Readers will explore different Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest, gaining an understanding of their art and its importance to their culture. This book should be paired with “Native American Art of the Northwest Coast" (9781477726525) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher : New York : American Museum of Natural History ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntryre
ISBN 13 : 9780295970226
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Land of the Totem Poles written by American Museum of Natural History and published by New York : American Museum of Natural History ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntryre. This book was released on 1991 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943 French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in New York City, along with countless refugees from the war in Europe. He became a frequent visitor to the North Pacific Hall at the American Museum of Natural History where he could lose himself in what he affectionately called "a magic place where the dreams of childhood hold a rendezvous, where century-old tree trunks sing and speak, where undefinable objects watch out for the visitor, with the anxious stare of human faces, where animals of superhuman gentleness join their little paws like hands in prayer." Two and a half million people now visit the Museum each year to share in these enchantments. The American Museum houses the most extensive collection of Northwest Coast Indian art in existence. It includes material from virtually every Indian group that once lived along the west coast of British Columbia and Alaska. In this book, Dr. Aldona Jonaitis traces the history of this magnificent collection, beginning in the late nineteenth century before those coastal peoples had much contact with Europeans, and their customs, languages, and art were still intact. Shortly after the collections was formed, between 1880 and 1910, Indian culture in this region went into a severe decline, to be revived a half century later as another generation of North Americans discovered their heritage. The story alternately captivates and distresses. Populations were decimated by disease in the last years of the nineteenth century, art objects left their makers' hands bound for museums all over the world, traditional rituals were outlawed, and governments exerted strong pressures on the Indians to become assimilated. On the other side of the story are the individuals--like Franz Boas, under whose direction much of the Museum collection was assembled, Lt. George Thornton Emmons, who immersed himself in the native cultures, George Hunt, prized Kwakiutl informant for Boas and other researchers, and Charles Edenshaw, master Haida carver and painter--whose colorful lives intersect the Age of Museum Collecting. Artifacts in the American Museum come alive through the details Dr. Jonaitis provides of their cultural context, their traditional uses, and their acquisition by collectors. Viewers see spoons and bowls that held food eaten by Boas at a potlatch; feel the spirit power emanating from a shaman's charm removed from its owner's grave by Lieutenant Emmons; sense the sadness behind the display of family crests on a house model carved by Edenshaw. Nearly 100 color plates in the book and numerous historical photographs from the Museum's archives recall a bygone era and are a tribute to the stunning artworks of the North Pacific region. Dr. Jonaitis has written the first book devoted solely to the collection of Northwest Coast Indian art in the American Museum of Natural History. As such, the book is both an essential work for scholars and a valuable resource for the general reader.

Author : Celeste Bishop
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477726543
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Art of the Northwest Coast written by Celeste Bishop and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American Art of the Northwest Coast is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.7 and Literacy.L.3.2f. Readers learn about Native American art, culture, and traditions of the northwest coast of the United States through full-page color photographs accompanied by narrative nonfiction text. This book should be paired with “Totem Poles and Masks: Art of the Northwest Coast Tribes" (9781477726112) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher : New York : American Museum of Natural History ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Land of the Totem Poles written by American Museum of Natural History and published by New York : American Museum of Natural History ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 1988 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northwest Coast Indian art collection of the American Museum of Natural History.--Title page.

Author : Edward Malin
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 9780917304057
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World of Faces written by Edward Malin and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2009-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the meaning behind the treasured masks created by artisans for ritual purposes, or simply for enjoyment. The author presents a photo gallery of outstanding examples. This book is only available through print on demand. All interior art is black and white.

Author : Marius Barbeau
Publisher : Hancock House Publishers Limited, Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of the Totem written by Marius Barbeau and published by Hancock House Publishers Limited, Canada. This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history, development, and significance of the totem pole art of the Northwest Coast.

Author : Bill Holm
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295999500
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Northwest Coast Indian Art written by Bill Holm and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book. The masterworks of Northwest Coast Native artists are admired today as among the great achievements of the world�s artists. The painted and carved wooden screens, chests and boxes, rattles, crest hats, and other artworks display the complex and sophisticated northern Northwest Coast style of art that is the visual language used to illustrate inherited crests and tell family stories. In the 1950s Bill Holm, a graduate student of Dr. Erna Gunther, former Director of the Burke Museum, began a systematic study of northern Northwest Coast art. In 1965, after studying hundreds of bentwood boxes and chests, he published Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form. This book is a foundational reference on northern Northwest Coast Native art. Through his careful studies, Bill Holm described this visual language using new terminology that has become part of the established vocabulary that allows us to talk about works like these and understand changes in style both through time and between individual artists� styles. Holm examines how these pieces, although varied in origin, material, size, and purpose, are related to a surprising degree in the organization and form of their two-dimensional surface decoration. The author presents an incisive analysis of the use of color, line, and texture; the organization of space; and such typical forms as ovoids, eyelids, U forms, and hands and feet. The evidence upon which he bases his conclusions constitutes a repository of valuable information for all succeeding researchers in the field. Replaces ISBN 9780295951027

Author : Marius Barbeau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Growth of the Totem Pole on the Northwest Coast written by Marius Barbeau and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cheryl Shearar
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1926706161
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Northwest Coast Art written by Cheryl Shearar and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy to use and easy to read, Understanding Northwest Coast Art is an essential source for understanding and visually identifying the underlying themes and subjects of Northwest Coast Native art. The first section of this book features an alphabetical list of words relating to Northwest Coast art, with definitions, descriptions and explanations and synopses of the major myths associated with them. As an aid to identification and understanding, many of the crests, beings and symbols are illustrated in the 60 black-and-white reproductions of contemporary works of art. The second section offers descriptions of the art styles and types of decorated objects created by the various Northwest Coast cultural groups.

Author : Alan Bridgewater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806982144
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carving Totem Poles & Masks written by Alan Bridgewater and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear, step-by-step drawings and easy-to-follow directions teach you how to carve full-size or in miniature the majestic totem poles and masks of the Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest.