👀 Learn to Recognize Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous Art — Whatever Form It Takes
This book offers an introduction to Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous art, helping you look more closely and recognize the visual language that connects many different works of art.
See how the same design can take different forms—as a flat line drawing or incised design on jewellery, as a two-dimensional painted image, or as a three-dimensional carved or sculptural form. Discover how these designs appear on objects such as bentwood boxes, ceremonial houses, masks, canoes and jewellery.
Other sections introduce many of the creatures and beings represented in Northwest Coast art and explore the main elements of formline design, helping you recognize what you are seeing wherever the art appears.
• Ten well-known objects and nineteen crest designs, with meanings and stories
• Seven main formline design elements, with variations
• 112 colour illustrations and photographs
• 6.5" × 8.5" softcover, 64 pages
Table of contents
Aboriginal Art Style & Cultural Areas
Potlatch
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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