Inuit Art
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- Chief Dan Cranmer
- Kwakwaka'wakw, 1921 potlatch was raided, people jailed, ceremonial objects taken by Canadian govt
- Bentwood Box
- bear design, cedar, Haida, 19th c.
- Nowhere Left
- Susan point, Coast Salish; woodblock print, 2000 (based on spindle whorl design)
- Copper
- Haida, 19th c.
- primary formline
- black - outlined eyes & faces
- U shape
- shaped in form of U or upside-down U
- Raven Steals the Moon
- Preston Singletary, Tlingit; 2006
- Charles Edenshaw
- Haida, carved argillite & sold to curio shops & collectors
- Glass Hat
- Preston Singletary, Tlingit; 2004
- Hamatsa Masks
- Chief Willie Seaweed, Kwakwaka'wakw: Crooked Beak of Heaven & Huxwhukw, cedar, 20th c.
- Totem pole types
- house frontal poles, mortuary poles (flat platform on top), memorial poles
- Totem Poles
- Haida, 19th c.
- Bear Mother
- Bill Reid, Haida; gold, early 1970s
- spindle whorl
- used to hold wool when spinning
- secondary formline
- usually red- outlined subsidiary areas
- argillite
- black shale from Queen Charlotte Island
- Bill Holm
- non-native artist & scholar, defined styles & forms (formline, U shape, ovoid), wrote "NW Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form", 1965
- The Raven & the First Men
- Bill Reid, Haida; laminated cedar, UBC Mus. Anthropology, 1983
- Chief Willie Seaweed
- well known carver, esp.of masks for Hamatsa ceremonies. used cedar woods & enamel paints (black, red, orange)
- Raven & Eagle Moieties
- two clans (kinships) of the Tlingit tribe
- Flight
- Susan Point, Coast Salish; Vancouver Intl. Airport; cedar, 1994
- Hamatsa
- initiation ceremony, men would go off into forest for a season, come back & act wild (pretend to eat human flesh), ceremony would reintegrate man into society
- Wawaditla House & totem pole
- Mungo Martin, Kwakwaka'wakw; Thunderbird Park, Royal BC Museum, Victoria, 1953
- split-U shape
- "loon feather" upside-down U with two smaller Us inside
- Hamatsa monsterbirds
- Cannibal Raven (dancer dressed in red cedar) plucked out eyes, Cannibal Crooked Beak of Heaven, Huxwhukw cracked open human heads & ate brain
- ovoid
- modified oval form
- formline
- main conture line that varies from thick to thin as it transitions
- Ban on Potlatch
- Amendment to the Inian Act, 1884; ban lifted in 1951
- Haida
- located on Queen Charlotte Islands, BC
- split image
- simultanious vision/view point of animal
- Frog Speaks
- Clarissa Hudson, Tlingit; button robe: antique Pendleton robe, wool & cotton, ribbon, abalone buttons; 2002
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- (formerly Kwakiutl), Vancouver Island, BC
- Chilkat robe
- Tlingit, mountain goat wool & cedar bark, 19th c.
- Crest
- animal (main animal) figure on a totem pole or other design