Don Smith - or Lelooska, as he was usually called - was a prominent Native American artist and storyteller in the Pacific Northwest. Born in 1933 of mixed blood Cherokee heritage, …
Showcases the vibrant practices of Tlingit womens beadworkFor over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus …
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, …
Foregrounds the importance of landscape within twenty-first-century Indigenous artA distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging among contemporary Indigenous …
The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from …
Although Franz Boas--one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century--is best known for his voluminous writings on cultural, physical, and linguistic …
Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, from demonstrating kinship …
From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south to the hills of northern Oregon and east to the continental divide in western Montana, hundreds of cliffs and boulders …
The Plains region that stretches from northern Colorado to southern Alberta and from the Rockies to the western Dakotas is the land of the Cheyenne and the Blackfeet, the Crow and …
Winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits award (African Studies Association)Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called aale to protect their …
