Down From the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast
1998
This richly illustrated book was made to accompany a summer 1998 exhibition, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, of historic and contemporary wooden masks from ten First Nations regions of the Pacific Northwest Coast—masks to be sold to Europeans and Americans, as well as those used for ceremonial use. Chief Joseph describes the traditional uses of carved masks, while Macnair draws attention to the spiritual characteristics of masks based on human faces, animals, and creatures representing the four dimensions of the cosmos—Sky, Mortal, Undersea, and Spirit World.
Artexte
Artexte
Identifier
L0197Call Number
E78.N78 M32 1998Extent
192 pages : illustrations ; softcover 28 cmLanguage
ISBN
550546236Place of Publication
Vancouver, BCPublication Type
PrintContributor
Alf BoguskyCollection
grunt gallery LibraryCopyright 1998 by Vancouver Art Gallery.