Nurtured by a benevolent land and guided by a sophisticated mythology, the Kwakiutl Indians of the British Columbia coast developed an art that is characterized by variety, skill, and power. Even after white culture began to interfere with the Indians' traditional living patterns, their art, firmly rooted in ceremony, continued to flourish and produced an exuberant array of carved masks, house posts, totem poles, feast dishes, rattles, whistles, and other objects.In 1927, the beginnings of what is now a superb collection of ...
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Nurtured by a benevolent land and guided by a sophisticated mythology, the Kwakiutl Indians of the British Columbia coast developed an art that is characterized by variety, skill, and power. Even after white culture began to interfere with the Indians' traditional living patterns, their art, firmly rooted in ceremony, continued to flourish and produced an exuberant array of carved masks, house posts, totem poles, feast dishes, rattles, whistles, and other objects.In 1927, the beginnings of what is now a superb collection of Kwakiutl art were assembled at the University of British Columbia. Audrey Hawthorn has played a key role in helping the collection grow. Kwakiutl Art celebrates, documents, and illustrates some of the finest examples of this art and the carvers who created it.
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Used-VG. Shelf wear on cover and/or edges. Slight fraying to corner edges. This book has minor wear and is in very good condition. Help support Orca Books Cooperative--Olympia's only Co-op Bookstore!
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 272 pages. Hardcover. Texts in English. Dustjacket is neatly price-clipped, with minimal shelfwear to the edges of the boards. Else, the binding is tight, the interior clean and free of markings. Bound in red cloth covered boards with gold stamping, wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Numerous black and white photographs, with a few in color.
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4to, hardcover, red cloth. Vg condition in good dj. Dust jacket chipped and edgeworn; covers and contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 272 pp., illus.
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Reduced. Fine, very good jacket, archival sleeve. First edition. Never read. Out of print. 272pp 8.4 x 11 in. *2.5 lb. Unlike Plains Indians, Northwest Coast Indian tribes were freed of extensive hunting for food, and were able to produce a rich vari
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