Northwest Native First Nation
Arts and Crafts

Masks, Carvings, Cedar Boxes, Painting, Weaving, Architecture

Edward S. Curtis
"The North American Indian"

2,232 images, 20 volumes of field notes from a 30 year project.

Library of Congress Use search engine for Edwward Curtis Photograph Collection.

Directory of Native Indian Artists

Not from the Pacific Northwest, but the Northwest of my childhood, The Oglala Sioux of the Lakota People

GALLERIES and MUSEUMS

The Stonington Gallery, Seattle

Sacred Circle Native Art

Seattle Art Museum

The Burke Museum, Seattle

The Gilcrease Museum Tulsa Oklahoma

The Blue Raven Company, British Columbia, Canada.

Artists


Duane Pasco

Books worth reading


(or at Least worth looking at)

Averill, Lloyd J. and Daphne K. Morris. Northwest Coast Native and Native-Style Art, A Guidebook for Western Washington. Seattle: 1995 University of Washington Press.

Brown, Steven, Editor. The Spirit Within, Northwest Coast Native Art from the John H. Hauberg Collection. 1995 New York. Rizzoli and Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA.

Brown, Steven C. Native Visions, Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century. 1998 Seattle, WA. Seattle Art Museum with University of Washington Press.

Brown, Steven C and Lloyd J. Averill, Sun Dogs and Eagle Down, The Indian Paintings of Bill Holm 2000 Seattle, University of Washington Press

Hawthorn, Audrey, Kwakiutl Art 1967 Seattle WA. University of Washington Press.

Holm, Bill Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis od Form. Seattle: 1965 University of Washington Press,

Holm, Bill. The Box of Daylight: Northwest Coast Indian Art. Seattle:Seattle Art Museum and the University odf Washington Press, 1983. Exhibition, Seattle Art Museum, September 15, 1983 - January 4, 1984.

Holm, Bill. Spirit and Ancestor, A Century of Northwest Costal Indian Art at the Burke Museum. Seattle: 1987 Burke Museum and University of Washington Press.

MacDonald, George F. Haida Monumental Art, Villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands Vancouver BC Canada: 1983 UBC Press.

MacDonald, George F. Haida Art Seattle: 1996 University of Washington Press.

Macnair, Peter, Robert Joseph and Bruce Grenville. Down from the Shimmering Sky, Masks of the Northwest Coast.Seattle: 1998 University of Washington Press - Vancouver Art Gallery.

Nabokov, Peter and Robert Easton. Native American Architecture. Oxford, 1989 Oxford University Pres.

Schmidt, Jeremy. In the spirit of mother earth: nature i Native American art San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994.

Stewart, Hillary. Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979.

Wardwell, Allen. Tangible Visions, Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and its art.New York: Monacelli Press, 1996.

Wright, Robin K.. Northern Hida Master Carvers Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001

Wyatt, Gary. Spirit Faces, Contemporary Native American Masks from the Northwest. 1994. San Francisco, Chronicle Books.

How Do they Do It?


In addition to CEDAR, above, these books explain carving and box making:

Bridgewater, Alan and Gill. Carving Totem Poles and Masks New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1991

Congdon-Martin, Douglas. Lelooska, The Traditional Art of the Mask, Carving a Transformational Mask Atgen PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 1996


Bob Aegerter
ellingham WA

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