The Tlingit Indians
The Tlingit Indians

Author: George Thornton Emmons

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780295970080

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When Emmons died in 1945, he left behind a mass of materials for a 65 line drawings, and 127 bandw photos. book on the Tlingit which he had begun as early as the 1880s, when he was stationed in Alaska with the US Navy. Ethnologist and archaeologist Frederica de Laguna has spent 30 years organizing Emmons ethnographic data, notes, drawings, sketches, and manuscripts, and has made significant additions from other sources and her own information, putting the entirety in chronological order, to present this invaluable ethnography of the Northwest Coast. Includes a biography of Emmons by Jean Low, as well as an extensive bibliography, 37 tables, Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Chilkat Dancing Blanket
The Chilkat Dancing Blanket

Author: Cheryl Samuel

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780806122991

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Describes the origin of the Chilkat or Dancing blanket and provides detailed information on materials, spinning, dyeing and weaving techniques. Well illustrated.

The Raven's Tail
The Raven's Tail

Author: Cheryl Samuel

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0774843187

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To produce this book, Cheryl Samuel travelled to Leningrad, Copenhagen, and London to examine the six robes in Europe. She also studied the robes housed in museums in Canada and the United States. In 1985, she reconstructed Chief Kotlean's robe, using information she had gathered from her study of the actual robes and Tikhanov's paintings. In the process, she resurrected an old weaving style no longer used by the Native people on the northern coast. Through her extensive and careful research, Cheryl Samuel makes an important contribution to the knowledge of early Indian weaving.

Understanding Northwest Coast Art
Understanding Northwest Coast Art

Author: Cheryl Shearar

Publisher: D & M Publishers

Published: 2008-09-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1926706161

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Easy to use and easy to read, Understanding Northwest Coast Art is an essential source for understanding and visually identifying the underlying themes and subjects of Northwest Coast Native art. The first section of this book features an alphabetical list of words relating to Northwest Coast art, with definitions, descriptions and explanations and synopses of the major myths associated with them. As an aid to identification and understanding, many of the crests, beings and symbols are illustrated in the 60 black-and-white reproductions of contemporary works of art. The second section offers descriptions of the art styles and types of decorated objects created by the various Northwest Coast cultural groups.

Being in Being
Being in Being

Author: Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

Published: 2023-10-28

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1771623764

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Being in Being contains three masterpieces by legendary Haida mythteller Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay. The shortest recounts the high points of the legend of his family. The longest, Raven Travelling, is the most complex version of the story of the Raven ever recorded on the Northwest Coast. The third is The Qquuna Cycle, the largest and most complex literary work in any Native Canadian language. It is a poem of epic length and one of the true masterpieces of North American literature.

Haa Tuwunáagu Yís, for Healing Our Spirit
Haa Tuwunáagu Yís, for Healing Our Spirit

Author: Nora Dauenhauer

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780295968506

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A compendium of Tlingit oratory recorded in performance, featuring Tlingit texts with facing English translations and detailed annotations; photographs of the orators and the settings in which the speeches were delivered; and biographies of the elders. Most speeches were recorded on Canada's Northwest Coast, primarily in British Columbia, between 1968 and 1988, but two date from 1899. Includes references and glossary.