This book, designed to give you a mere glimpse of Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous art, hopes to lead you to a deeper understanding and whet your appetite for learning more about the vibrant, complex aboriginal cultures still living today. Three sections show you where to look to identify many of the things you will from three-dimensional objects like bentwood boxes, ceremonial houses, masks and canoes, to several of the main creature designs on the coast, to a discussion of the main design elements in Pacific Northwest Coast aboriginal art.
· Illustrates ten well-known objects and nineteen crest designs from the Pacific Northwest Coast along with meanings and stories
· Identifies seven main design elements along with variations
· 112 colour illustrations and photos
· 6.5” x 8.5” soft cover, 64 pages
Table of contents
· Aboriginal Art Style & Cultural Areas
· Potlatch
· Three-dimensional Objects
· bentwood box
· bighouse front
· bighouse
· button blanket
· canoe
· hat
· house post
· jewelry
· masks
· mortuary pole
· totem pole
· wearable cloth art
· Creatures/Beings
· bear
· beaver
· frog
· eagle
· human
· Orca/ killer whale
· raven
· salmon
· sea lion
· sea otter
· shark / dogfish
· sisiutl
· sun
· thunderbird
· Wild Man of the Woods
· Wild Woman of the Woods
· wolf
· Design components
· formline
· ovoid
· U shape
· S shape
· box end design
· salmon head
· Other shapes