Peoples Of The Northwest Coast

Author : Kenneth M. Ames,Herbert D. G. Maschner
Publisher : New York : Thames and Hudson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0500281106

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Peoples of the Northwest Coast by Kenneth M. Ames,Herbert D. G. Maschner Pdf

Extending some 1,400 miles from Alaska to northern California, America's Northwest Coast is one of the richest and most distinct cultural areas on earth. The region is famous for its magnificent art--masks, totem poles, woven blankets--produced by the world's most politically and economically complex hunters and gatherers. As this pioneering account shows, the history of settlement on the Northwest Coast stretches back some 11,000 years. With the stabilization of sea levels and salmon runs after 4000 B.C., many of the region's salient features began to emerge. Salmon fishing supported rapid population growth to a peak over 1,000 years ago. The spread of rain forest made available trees such as red cedar that could be turned into vast houses and seaworthy canoes. Large households and permanent villages emerged alongside slavery and a hereditary nobility. Warfare became epidemic, initially hand to hand but later characterized by the development of fortresses and the bow and arrow. Art evolved from simple carvings and geometric designs 5,000 years ago to the specialized crafts of the modern era. Written by noted experts and profusely illustrated, this is an essential reference for scholars and students of Native American archaeology and anthropology as well as travelers to the region.

Author : Diane Silvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : OCLC:1011718422

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From Time Immemorial by Diane Silvey Pdf

Author : Janey Levy
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781482447989

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Native Peoples of the Northwest Coast by Janey Levy Pdf

The native peoples of the northwest coast are often known by the totem poles they create. Made from cedar trees, totem poles were painted bright colors and featured both animal and human forms. Why these amazing pieces of art are created is just one of the interesting details readers will learn about the many native peoples who lived in modern-day Alaska, Oregon, Washington, northern California, and British Columbia. The main content features many social studies curriculum topics, including customs, clothing, and spirituality of native peoples. Full-color photographs and historical images enhance each chapter as specific native groups are highlighted throughout the book.

Author : Jeff Oliver
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816527873

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Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast by Jeff Oliver Pdf

Nordamerika - Kolonialzeit - Landschaft - Raumkonzepte - soziale Konstruktion.

Author : Alexander Dawkins
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781771642989

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Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry by Alexander Dawkins Pdf

As beautiful as it is useful, Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry is an invaluable tool for anyone interested in learning about or deepening their understanding of a fascinating craft. Indigenous hand-engraved jewelry from the Pacific Northwest Coast is among the most distinctive, innovative, and highly sought-after art being produced in North America today. But these artworks are more than just stunning—every bracelet, ring, and pendant is also the product of a fascinating backstory, a specialized set of techniques, and a talented artist. With a clearly written text, a foreword by award-winning First Nations artist Corrine Hunt, and more than one hundred striking color photographs and sidebars, Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry offers an illuminating look at an exquisite craft and the context in which it is practiced. Providing a step-by-step overview of various techniques, the book also introduces the specifics of formline design, highlights the traits of the most common animal symbols used, offers tips for identification, and features biographies and works from over fifty of the Coast’s best-known jewelers. Finally, it delves into the history of the art form, from the earliest horn and copper cuff bracelets to cutting-edge contemporary works and everything in between.

Author : Bill Holm
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295999500

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Northwest Coast Indian Art by Bill Holm Pdf

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 : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615307135

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Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic, Subarctic, and Northwest Coast by Britannica Educational Publishing Pdf

The indigenous peoples of North America and Greenland have long inhabited and thrived in a variety of terrains and climates. The three different culture areas of the Arctic, American Subarctic, and American Northwest perhaps best exemplify this—from the sometimes stark environment of the tundra to the moderate conditions of the coastal regions in northern California, the indigenous communities in each found ways to subsist on the resources available to them even when facing social, political, or geographic adversity. This compelling volume examines the histories, lifestyles, and the spiritual and cultural traditions of the diverse groups that make up these culture areas.

Author : Assistant Professor of Geography Douglas E Deur,Douglas E. Deur,Nancy J. Turner,Professor of Environmental Studies Nancy J Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0295995777

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Keeping It Living by Assistant Professor of Geography Douglas E Deur,Douglas E. Deur,Nancy J. Turner,Professor of Environmental Studies Nancy J Turner Pdf

The European explorers who first visited the Northwest Coast of North America assumed that the entire region was virtually untouched wilderness whose occupants used the land only minimally, hunting and gathering shoots, roots, and berries that were peripheral to a diet and culture focused on salmon. Colonizers who followed the explorers used these claims to justify the displacement of Native groups from their lands. Scholars now understand, however, that Northwest Coast peoples were actively cultivating plants well before their first contact with Europeans. This book is the first comprehensive overview of how Northwest Coast Native Americans managed the landscape and cared for the plant communities on which they depended. Bringing together some of the world's most prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures, Keeping It Living tells the story of traditional plant cultivation practices found from the Oregon coast to Southeast Alaska. It explores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camas plots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia, estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia, wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berry plots up and down the entire coast. With contributions from ethnobotanists, archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, ecologists, and Native American scholars and elders, Keeping It Living documents practices, many unknown to European peoples, that involve manipulating plants as well as their environments in ways that enhanced culturally preferred plants and plant communities. It describes how indigenous peoples of this region used and cared for over 300 different species of plants, from the lofty red cedar to diminutive plants of backwater bogs.

Author : Kathryn Smithyman,Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778703789

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Nations of the Northwest Coast by Kathryn Smithyman,Bobbie Kalman Pdf

The northwest coast of the Pacific Ocean has been home to many Native nations for thousands of years. The waters, mountains, and forests of this isolated region provided food and shelter for groups such as the Tlingit, the Haida, and the Kwakiutl. Topics covered in Nations of the NorthwestCoast include:* the distinct customs, cultures, and beliefs of the various nations* dwellings used in different seasons and locales* fishing and the use of coastal plants and animals* traditional handicrafts, including carving and weaving* the organization of families, clans, and moieties* the impact of the arrival of the Europeans

Author : Leland Donald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520918115

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Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America by Leland Donald Pdf

With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross-cultural definition of slavery. Arguing that slaves and slavery were central to these hunting-fishing-gathering societies, he points out how important slaves were to the Northwest Coast economies for their labor and for their value as major items of exchange. Slavery also played a major role in more famous and frequently analyzed Northwest Coast cultural forms such as the potlatch and the spectacular art style and ritual systems of elite groups. The book includes detailed chapters on who owned slaves and the relations between masters and slaves; how slaves were procured; transactions in slaves; the nature, use, and value of slave labor; and the role of slaves in rituals. In addition to analyzing all the available data, ethnographic and historic, on slavery in traditional Northwest Coast cultures, Donald compares the status of Northwest Coast slaves with that of war captives in other parts of traditional Native North America.

Author : Anita Yasuda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 163407033X

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Native Nations of the Northwest Coast by Anita Yasuda Pdf

Examines the culture of some of the Native American groups that live on the northwest coast of America, including the Tlingit, Haida, and Chinook peoples.

Author : Anne Kamma,Pamela Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439260779

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If You Lived with the Indians of the Northwest Coast by Anne Kamma,Pamela Johnson Pdf

An addition to a popular history series presents a child's eye view of the Native American cultures of America's northern Pacific coast, showing their housing, clothing, social structure, religious customs, occupations, and more. Original.

Author : Hilary Stewart
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1926706366

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Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast by Hilary Stewart Pdf

Bold, inventive indigenous art of the Northwest Coast is distinguished by its sophistication and complexity. It is also composed of basically simple elements which, guided by a rich mythology, create images of striking power. In Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, Hilary Stewart introduces the elements of style; interprets the myths and legends which shape the motifs; and defines and illustrates the stylistic differences between the major cultural groupings. Raven, Thunderbird, Killer Whale, Bear: all the traditional forms are here, deftly analyzed by a professional writer and artist who has a deep understanding of this powerful culture.

Author : Leslie Heyman Tepper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Indian arts
ISBN : 0660202794

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The Grand Hall by Leslie Heyman Tepper Pdf

Explore the Aboriginal cultures of Canada's Pacific Coast through this richly illustrated book of the Museum's Grand Hall. Discover ancient and contemporary works of Northwest Coast art found in every aspect of daily life from simple tools to the complex ceremonial regalia, masks and theatrical pieces created for public performance. Soaring totem poles and magnificent house front paintings draw attention to the vaulted ceiling and stunning architecture of the Grand Hall itself. The Northwest Coast exhibition, developed in consultation and with the assistance of Northwest Coast First Nation artists, curators and scholars, reveals an extraordinary culture that has existed in Canada for thousands of years.

Author : Cheryl Shearar
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781926706160

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Understanding Northwest Coast Art by Cheryl Shearar Pdf

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.