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WORN WITH PRIDE.(North Western Native American clothing and textiles)
Native American textiles and garments from the Northwest Coast
The rich wrap themselves up sometimes in white blankets, manufactured in the country, from the wool of the wild sheep, which b as soft and fine as the Spanish merino. These blankets are embroidered with square fringes, and figures with Mack and yellow tassels. Some of them are so curiously worked on one side with the fur of the sea otter, that they appear as if lined by it, and are very handsome. [1]
American Indian art of the Pacific Northwest Coast is renowned for the distinctive designs used to decorate a variety of mediums. It is a formal design system developed over the centuries, and ...
- Heron and gull: a Northwest Coast Indian legend.(Short Story)
- Magazine article from: Highlights for Children Ottolenghi, Carol March 1, 2005 700+ words
Raven stars in many stories of the Northwest Coast tribes. According to some stories, Raven brought the sun to the world and salmon to the Northwest. But Raven is also a greedy practical joker. Although...
- Art of the Northwest Coast.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Lenz, Mary Jane October 1, 1994 700+ words
...Washington State.(6) The Northwest Coast is a land of islands...slaves. The art of the Northwest Coast includes basketry...animals; the wolf, raven, bear, eagle, killer...objects of every kind. Northwest Coast art is based on a series...
- NORTHWEST COAST INDIAN PRINTMAKING AT ITS BEST.(Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Hackett, Regina November 19, 1998 700+ words
...delight. The history of Northwest Coast Native printmaking...Indians had copied Northwest Coast designs and printed...a shaman holding a raven rattle and wearing...finest groupings of Northwest Coast prints in the world...
- Spirit Faces: Contemporary Masks of the Northwest Coast.(Review) (book reviews)
- School Arts Anderson, Kent October 1, 1999 700+ words
...Contemporary Masks of the Northwest Coast. Gary Wyatt. Seattle...three outstanding Northwest Coast artists working today...transformation of a wolf or a raven into human form. It...potlatch and other Northwest Coast ceremonies. A beautiful...
- Potlatching and political organization among the Northwest Coast Indians.
- Magazine article from: Ethnology Tollefson, Kenneth D. January 1, 1995 700+ words
...aggregations of local groups among some Northwest Coast divisions," he contends that...the northern boundary of the Northwest Coast Cultural Area between the present...divided between the Eagle and Raven moieties. They placed considerable...
- Mighty raven is making a return Some say the coyote will follow
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Ralph Jimenez, Globe Staff December 3, 1995 700+ words
...enough that a perched raven would have to reel...legend, however, ravens had that knowledge. According to a Northwest Coast Tsimshian Indian...animals alike have Raven to thank for the...in most legends ravens and crows were originally...
- When Raven soard.
- Magazine article from: Appleseeds Anderson, Leigh March 1, 2008 700+ words
...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Raven turned back into a bird and...and shouted with anger. But Raven only cawed and cackled as the...who first settled the Pacific Northwest coast. Their languages and stories...places in which they live, but Raven flies through many of their...
- After white raven.
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Humanities White, Frederick December 1, 2006 700+ words
...raven story is the Haida version of it.... Yehl is the Raven. He is called Yehl. So that is the story of Raven becoming black. Most other northwest coast stories only tell about how Raven got black; this Haida version tells why. The entire...
