This survey of totem poles from the Tlingit settlements of Alaska to the Kwakiutl villages of Vancouver Island examines the traditions that led to their creation. It includes both the author's vivid drawings of totem poles and historical photographs of early native settlements.
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"This is a fascinating, informative, and important book produced by one of the finest small publishing houses in the country. The author, an anthropologist, has devoted his life to a study of North Coast Indians."
—PAUL PINTARICH , The Oregonian
—PAUL PINTARICH , The Oregonian
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This survey of totem poles from the Tlingit settlements of Alaska to the Kwakiutl villages of Vancouver Island examines the traditions that led to their creation.
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Excellent text for understanding the Coastal Indian Totems,
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This book is for anyone who wants to study or research the Coastal Indian Totem Pole. Written in an easy to read yet scientific style it is historically accurate, authoritative and comprehensive. It contains multiple drawings and colored plates illustrating the types of poles, their function and individual details. It is a must for the experienced artist who intends on carving a totem showing carving techniques, tools, pictures, animal subjects with an explaination of the meaning and placement of each. It even tells how to raise a carved totem. Available in paperback it has to be a best buy!
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This book shows a very exhaustive and general vision of the history, meaning, styles and places where totem poles has been erected in the west coast. As a first approach this text overpases the highest expectations, but after you've read it all you've also got a respectful, lovely and acceptance feeling about all the first people tribes. And that's a very good thing to have after reading such a great book.
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The prehistoric occupation of the Northwest Coast by ancestors of present-day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heraldic poles, house frontal poles, interior house posts, pole carving, heraldic types, chieftain holding, house frontals, memorial poles, mortuary poles, pole raising, crest symbols, carved poles, lineage houses, old poles, carved columns, deceased leaders, type poles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northwest Coast, Bella Coola, Southern Kwakiutl, Alert Bay, British Columbia, Nass River, Fort Rupert, Vancouver Island, Skeena River, Coast Tsimshian, Provincial Museum, Queen Charlotte Islands, Mungo Martin, Northern Kwakiutl, Coast Salish, Pacific Northwest, United States, Bella Bella, Charlie James, Bear Mother, Forest Service, Hudson's Bay Company, Prince Rupert, Thunderbird Park, Wilson Duff New!
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The prehistoric occupation of the Northwest Coast by ancestors of present-day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heraldic poles, house frontal poles, interior house posts, pole carving, heraldic types, chieftain holding, house frontals, memorial poles, mortuary poles, pole raising, crest symbols, carved poles, lineage houses, old poles, carved columns, deceased leaders, type poles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northwest Coast, Bella Coola, Southern Kwakiutl, Alert Bay, British Columbia, Nass River, Fort Rupert, Vancouver Island, Skeena River, Coast Tsimshian, Provincial Museum, Queen Charlotte Islands, Mungo Martin, Northern Kwakiutl, Coast Salish, Pacific Northwest, United States, Bella Bella, Charlie James, Bear Mother, Forest Service, Hudson's Bay Company, Prince Rupert, Thunderbird Park, Wilson Duff New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Monuments in Cedar by Edward L. Keithahn on page 100, and Back Matter
- Totem Poles of Skedans by John Smyly in Back Matter
- Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast by Hilary Stewart in Back Matter
- Totem Poles by Hilary Stewart in Back Matter
- Cultures of the North Pacific Coast by Philip Drucker in Back Matter
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- Northwest Coast Indian Painting: House Fronts and Interior Screens by Edward Malin in Back Matter
- Alaska's Totem Poles by Pat Kramer in Back Matter
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