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Smithsonian American Indian

Listening to Our Ancestors

The Art of Native Life Along the Pacific Northwest Coast

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Illustrated with never-before-published artifacts from the unique treasures in the museum's Northwest Coast collections, Listening to Our Ancestors profiles native communities of the Pacific Northwest and showcases the region's rich cultural history and artwork.Sophisticated in conception and execution and rich with symbolism, the totem poles, painted housefronts, masks, dance regalia, feast bowls, and elaborately decorated boxes made by the native people of the North Pacific Coast have long been recognized as masterworks of art. Here, in a series of community self-portraits, cultural figures from eleven Northwest Coast nations discuss the wa… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Macnair, Peter / Stewart, Jay / Joseph, Robert / Lenz, Mary Jane
  • ISBN: 978-0-7922-4190-4
  • EAN: 9780792241904
  • Produktnummer: 1845336
  • Verlag: National Geographic
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.

Über den Autor


Robert Joseph is a chief of the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation and CEO of the Residential Schools Commission for British Columbia. Joseph has served as consultant or co-curator for several films and exhibitions on the First Nations of British Columbia. His essay Behind the Mask appears in Down from the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast.

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