Alaska's Totem Poles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alaska's Totem Poles write by Pat Kramer. This book was released on 2012-11-15. Alaska's Totem Poles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through the mists of Alaska's rain forest, totem poles have stood watch for untold generations. Imbued with mystery to outsider eyes, the fierce, carved symbols silently spoke of territories, legends, memorials, and paid debts. Today many of these cultural icons are preserved for the public to enjoy in heritage parks and historical centers through southeast Alaska. And, after nearly a century of repression, totem carving among Alaska's Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian peoples is flourishing again. In this newly revised edition of Alaska's Totem Poles, readers learn about the history and use of totems, clan crests, symbolism, and much more. A special section describes where to go to view totems. Author Pat Kramer traveled throughout the homelands of the Totem People—along Alaska's Panhandle, the coast of British Columbia, and into the Northwest—meeting the people, learning their stores, and researching and photographing totem poles. Foreword writer David A. Boxley also offers the unique perspective of a Native Alaskan carver who has been a leader in the renaissance. This is a handy guide for travelers in Southeast Alaska who want to learn more about Alaska's totems. There's even a guide of where to view totems in the state. Ravens, killer whales (Orca) and bears... they're all represented in the totem.
Tlingit Art
Tlingit Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tlingit Art write by Maria Bolanz. This book was released on 2003. Tlingit Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Tlingit Indians of the Northwest Coast carved interior house posts, portal entrances and free standing totem poles with crests of animals, sea creatures, birds, and legendary and human figures, successfully combining symbolism and realism. This book examines the social and artistic relevance of the Tlingit carvings and relates many of the fascinating North American Indian legends upon which some of the carvings are based.
Proud Raven, Panting Wolf
Proud Raven, Panting Wolf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proud Raven, Panting Wolf write by Emily L. Moore. This book was released on 2018-11-20. Proud Raven, Panting Wolf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among Southeast Alaska’s best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression, when the US government reversed its policy of suppressing Native practices and began to pay Tlingit and Haida communities to restore older totem poles and move them from ancestral villages into parks designed for tourists. Dramatically altering the patronage and display of historic Tlingit and Haida crests, this New Deal restoration project had two key aims: to provide economic aid to Native people during the Depression and to recast their traditional art as part of America’s heritage. Less evident is why Haida and Tlingit people agreed to lend their crest monuments to tourist attractions at a time when they were battling the US Forest Service for control of their traditional lands and resources. Drawing on interviews and government records, as well as on the histories represented by the totem poles themselves, Emily Moore shows how Tlingit and Haida leaders were able to channel the New Deal promotion of Native art as national art into an assertion of their cultural and political rights. Just as they had for centuries, the poles affirmed the ancestral ties of Haida and Tlingit lineages to their lands. Supported by the Jill and Joseph McKinstry Book Fund Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/proud-raven-panting-wolf
Totem Tale
Totem Tale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Totem Tale write by Perfection Learning Corporation. This book was released on 2019. Totem Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Carve Your Own Totem Pole
Carve Your Own Totem Pole - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carve Your Own Totem Pole write by Wayne Hill. This book was released on 2007. Carve Your Own Totem Pole available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A well-illustrated guidebook that includes the history of totem-pole carving and its West Coast native tradition, and instructions and ideas on how to design and carve a totem-pole as either a traditional design or in a personal folk-art motif.
