This book includes rare photographs and the author's own stunning renderings of actual house front paintings and screen partitions.
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Edward Malin resurrects the American Indian art form of 'flat painting' that peaked on the Northwest coast more than a century ago. -- Virgil Rupp "East Oregonian" (03/17/2002)
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The author has meticulously reproduced in color significant historic house paintings of the Tlingit & other tribes.
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An outstanding book - worth the price just for the art,
By Pooh Guy (Redmond, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Northwest Coast Indian Painting: House Fronts and Interior Screens (Hardcover)
This is definitely one of the better books about Northwest Coast artwork. In fact, it is really two books in one.The first half of the book goes into all sorts of information about the Northwest Coast tribes, including where and how they lived, and on and on. The tone occasionally is a bit more academic than I'd prefer, but for the most part is well-written, easy to read, and very interesting. The second half of the book is page after page after page of Northwest Coast artwork examples. To be honest, I'd have thought the book was worth the price even without the first half. The artwork section is wonderful, with a really nice variety of examples, And the layout of the book (semi-landscape) allows the author to show us much larger versions than we normally see of this type of art. This is especially true for the things this books features (house fronts and interior screens), which naturally are much wider than they are high. If you are building a collection of books about Northwest Coast Indians and Art, you probably won't regret buying this one.
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Excellent Book,
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This review is from: Northwest Coast Indian Painting: House Fronts and Interior Screens (Paperback)
I bought this book at a bookstore in Vancouver, B.C. this past November. I am looking to get a tattoo of one of these designs. I just finished reading this and it went way beyond my expectations of what I was going to learn about this art. The photos and illustrations are amazing as well as the text on the history. I feel even better about getting my tattoo now, because I really have the knowledge behind the design.
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This book is in excellent addition to our library and will be very helpful in my husband's artwork. Ordering was easy and delivery very fast. Thank you.
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Much has been written by popular writers and serious scholars like about Native Americans who resided along the Pacific Northwest Coast. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
house front paintings, hocker position, painted house fronts, interior screens, crest symbols, flat painting, humanlike face, raven clan, salmon people, screen paintings, pole carving, crest design, eye designs, wolf half, painting tradition, lineage houses, house screens, crest figure, northern style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Columbia, Southern Kwakiutl, Bella Coola, Alert Bay, Whale House, Fort Simpson, Coast Tsimshian, Fort Rupert, Bella Bella, Coast Salish, Northern Kwakiutl, Rain Wall Screen, Raven Screen, George Emmons, Sea Monster House, Hudson's Bay Company, Marius Barbeau, Beaver Screen, Denver Art Museum, Wolf Bath House, Alaska State Library, Chief Gold, Richard Maynard, Thunderbird House, Blunden Harbour New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Much has been written by popular writers and serious scholars like about Native Americans who resided along the Pacific Northwest Coast. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
house front paintings, hocker position, painted house fronts, interior screens, crest symbols, flat painting, humanlike face, raven clan, salmon people, screen paintings, pole carving, crest design, eye designs, wolf half, painting tradition, lineage houses, house screens, crest figure, northern style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Columbia, Southern Kwakiutl, Bella Coola, Alert Bay, Whale House, Fort Simpson, Coast Tsimshian, Fort Rupert, Bella Bella, Coast Salish, Northern Kwakiutl, Rain Wall Screen, Raven Screen, George Emmons, Sea Monster House, Hudson's Bay Company, Marius Barbeau, Beaver Screen, Denver Art Museum, Wolf Bath House, Alaska State Library, Chief Gold, Richard Maynard, Thunderbird House, Blunden Harbour New!
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- The Tsimshian and Their Neighbors of the North Pacific Coast by Jay Miller in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Merchant Princes (Company of Adventurers) by Peter C. Newman on page 129, and Back Matter
- Primitive Art by Franz Boas on page 97, and Back Matter
- The Northern and Central Nootkan Tribes (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnnology Bulletin 144) by Philip Drucker on page 104, and Back Matter
- Northwest Coast Indian Art (Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State M) by Bill Holm on page 124, and Back Matter
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