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This is a fascinating look at the growing world of international indigenous art collection and study. In the Algonquin language, "Sakahan" means to light a fire, which is exactly what this publication aims to do. Sakahan: International Indigenous Art celebrates a growing international commitment to the collection, study and exhibition of Indigenous art. Featuring more than 75 artists from around the world, this remarkable project provides an outstanding opportunity to see work by some of the mos...

Among Native American Plateau people, women are important culture bearers, responsible for passing spiritual values from one generation to the next by many means, including manual art forms, stories, and songs. This book explores each of the Plateau arts by means of Native American legends and poems, articles by various scholars, and interviews with Native American women artists.

For more than a thousand years, Alaska Native people have fashioned human figurines out of stone, bone, ivory, rodent claws, trade cloth, and many other materials. It is widely acknowledged that children played with such figurines but their other uses in both everyday and ceremonial life are less well known.This book celebrates the many uses of dolls and human figurines from Alaska Native cultures past and present. The examples included represent all six ethnic groups in Alaska -- the Inupiaq an...

Rising from a forest mist or soaring overhead in parks and museums, magnificent cedar totem poles have captured the attention and imagination of visitors to Washington State, British Columbia, and Alaska. Discovering Totem Poles is the first guidebook to focus on the complex and fascinating histories of the specific poles visitors encounter in Seattle, Victoria, Vancouver, Alert Bay, Prince Rupert, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), Ketchikan, Sitka, and Juneau. It debunks common misconcept...

In September 1895, Aby Warburg started out on his journey to the USA, which proved to be momentous for him as well as for the scientific discipline of art history. The results of his cultural-anthropological research ("Snake Ritual"), which he presented in lectures in 1897 and at the Kreuzlingen Sanatorium in 1923, are for the first time presented in reliable transcriptions, including all image documents. In addition to about 200 photographs by Warburg, covering subjects such as the Pueblo In...

The massive wood carvings unique to the Indian peoples of the Northwest Coast arouse a sense of wonder in all who see them. This guide helps the reader to understand and enjoy the form and meaning of totem poles and other sculptures. Among the illustrations are archival photographs which show the poles in their original settings--on deserted pebble beaches and in front of the now decayed houses which once stood in thriving villages.The author describes the origin and place of totem poles in Indi...

This book is regarded as the most authoritative work on tribal rugs. It paints a fascinating picture not only showing superb examples of tribal rugs, but also the way in which they are woven and the life of the tribes themselves.

Terpning creates award-winning images that are powerful yet intimate glimpses into the Plains Indians' "glory days."

"The Taos Pueblo Exhibition is the beginning of an exploration of the wonders of glass art. We began this trail of beauty with a guide, Dale Chihuly, who made this art his life," say the leaders of the Taos Pueblo. Dale Chihuly made his first trip to the Southwest in 1974. A year later, he was deeply affected by a museum collection of Navajo Blankets and began to experiment with simple, cylindrical forms, which became the Navajo Blanket Cylinders. Boasting ingeniously applied patterns of colourf...