Carving

Three Sioux pipes collected by W.D. Wallis in 1914. Portage La Prairie, MB.

Brief profiles of the artists. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 39.

Focuses on Inuit artists: Abraham Anghik, David Ruben Piqtoukun, Rex Goose, Joe Nasogaluak, Angus Kaanerk Cockney, Bill Nasogaluak. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 38.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2002.

Book review of: Solitary Raven edited by Robert Bringhurst; afterword by Martine Reid. To access this review, scroll to page 98.

Explains the role that the items played in the Inuit culture of the region. Entire issues on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 28.

Interviews several artists regarding the natural and local materials they use. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 36.

Presents an interview with a carver from Tuktoyaktuk. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 23.

Interview with an artist who uses various mediums. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 17.

Guide to accompany film, The Living Stone. Suggested uses in Social Studies, English and senior high schools.Contains concepts, directive questions and suggested follow-up activities.

Brief curator's essay for the exhibition of the same name held at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.

Looks at the similarities between Inuit and European surrealist works. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 4.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis, (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2001.

Highlights the artist's works featuring visual and three-dimensional art in a variety of mediums.

Cherokee painter and pipemaker.

Website contains links to images of sculptures accessible by region or subject, and a history of the company's collection.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts by Cyrus Thomas On Masks, Labrets, and Certain Aboriginal Customs by William H. Dall Omaha Sociology by Rev. J. Owen Dorsey Navajo Weavers by Dr. Washington Matthews Prehistoric Textile Fabrics of the United States by William H. Holmes Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made by the Bureau of Ethnology During the Field Season of 1881 by William H.

Interview with a prominent Inuit sculptor. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.

Comments on work of Abraham Anghik, Bill Nasogaluak and Joe Nasogaluak displayed in The Shaman's Drum: Echoes of the Past exhibition at the Images of North Gallery, San Francisco, October, 1993. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 4.

Overview of Pacific Northwest art from pre-contact to present day. Duration: 54:07.

Website contains links to history of the park, children's activities, and teacher resources.

Interview with the Apache artist; includes brief list of exhibitions and bibliography.

Looks at intricately carved, small likenesses of people, animals, weapons and utensils. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 14.

Fine Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1984.

A close-up of a totem pole; three totem poles in background. Kitwanga, BC.

A photograph of a large totem pole at a tourist site called Prospect Point, British Columbia. From the clothing worn by the people in the picture it appears to have been taken in early to mid 1960s.

Postcard of totem pole by the Skeena River in BC. 'Skeena River / B.C.' at bottom of postcard.

Totem pole removed and sold, with the permission of the Government of Canada, to the ethnographical collection of the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.

Handwritten annotation on back: "1. Keebu - wolf 2. Hpeesunt - woman with 2 half-bear children 3. Keebu - wolf head down 4. Smaih - bear 5. Keebu - wolf head down 6. Smaih - bear"

A Caucasian man and child posing in front of totem pole in Prince Rupert, BC.; summer scene. Title from front of postcard.

A totem pole workshop in "Esquiremault", B.C.

A close-up of 8 totem poles.

Group of four totem poles; summer scene.

History of totem poles with maps and illustrations; postulates carving began in pre-Columbian era.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (USA) in 1930 sought to encourage the appreciation of carvings as art.

A group picture of 19 totem poles.

Illustrated booklet of totems, including five postcards: three are entitled 'Indian Totem Poles, Kitwanga, BC'; one entitled 'The Lion Totem of Kitwanga, BC'; and one entitled 'Totem Poles Stanley Park Vancouver B.C.' Description sheet duplicates some text in booklet.

Brief discussion of the changes in art, including the tools and materials used, during a period of great social and cultural upheaval.

Brief discussion of art from the time museums ceased collecting extensively to the present, with some discussion on the prominent artists and their particular art form.

Exhibition review from the National Gallery of Canada, 1994-1995. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 32.

Examines the work of Frederick Alexie (Frederick Alexcee), a Tsimshian carver and painter and Mathias Joe, a Squamish carver, during the assimilation policy period of 1867-1951 in British Columbia.

Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name at the Canadian Cultural Centre, France, 1997 and The Waikato Museum of Art and History, New Zealand, 1997. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 32.

Book reviews of: Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian by Maria Tippett Bill Reid and Beyond: Expanding on Modern Native Art edited by Karen Duffek and Charlotte Townsend-Gault.

Curatorial notes for exhibition of same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, January 18 to September 21, 1997. Entire issue on one pdf. To locate article, scroll to page 50.

Curatorial notes from exhibition of the same name. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 38.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1985.

Argues that as knowledge of traditional ways disappears, carvings are in danger of losing their spiritual and cultural meaning and becoming nothing more than souvenirs. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to p. 16.

Comments on the connection between Indigenous cultural activism and contemporary First Nations art.

Features 19 artists, including biographies, contact information and up to six examples of their works.

Presents a condensed version of sessions, held for 3 days in Ottawa, in which artists describe problems of adequate supply of carving stone, mass production of "souvenir" Inuit carvings, and being involved in marketing of their art. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 24.