Presents an illustrated history of the totem poles of the Native peoples of the Northwest Coast and examines their form and meaning, origin and cultural significance to those in the Pacific Northwest.
Presents an illustrated history of the totem poles of the Native peoples of the Northwest Coast and examines their form and meaning, origin and cultural significance to those in the Pacific Northwest.
Before Cortés, sculpture of Middle America: a centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museu…
by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress), Hoving, Thomas, Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy, Scott, John F., (John Fredrik), Easby, Dudley T., Jr.,, (Dudley Tate)
Ranging from the early pre-contact period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over many centuries and across a vast number of regions, the authors introduce the extraordinary variety of Native American arts ... [The] book encompasses both t…