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The legacy : tradition and innovation in Northwest Coast Indian art / Peter L. Macnair, Alan L. Hoover, Kevin Neary.

By: Macnair, Peter L.
Contributor(s): Hoover, Alan L | Neary, Kevin | British Columbia Provincial Museum.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Vancouver : Seattle : Douglas & McIntyre ; University of Washington Press, c1984Description: 193 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0888944187 ; 9780888944184 ; 029596166X ; 9780295961668 .Subject(s): Indian art -- British Columbia -- Pacific Coast -- Exhibitions | Indian art -- Northwest Coast of North America -- Exhibitions | Art, Canadian -- British Columbia -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Indian artists -- British Columbia -- BiographyDDC classification: 704.039707111
Contents:
Introduction -- Two-dimensional design -- Sculpture -- Art and artists in a changing society -- The art today -- Artifacts.
Summary: Catalogue of an exhibition 'The Legacy' of northwest Coast Indian art (carvings, metalwork, totems, house fronts etc.) based at the British Columbia Provincial Museum in Victoria.

1st ed. originally published: Victoria, B.C. : British Columbia Provincial Museum, 1980 in conjunction with an exhibition held there Aug. 1971-Dec. 1972; later re-designed and shown throughout Canada and at the 1980 Edinburgh International Festival.

Bibliography: p. 191-193.

Introduction -- Two-dimensional design -- Sculpture -- Art and artists in a changing society -- The art today -- Artifacts.

Catalogue of an exhibition 'The Legacy' of northwest Coast Indian art (carvings, metalwork, totems, house fronts etc.) based at the British Columbia Provincial Museum in Victoria.

Presented by Pat Mortell.