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Honouring Tradition: Reframing Native Art

Honouring Tradition: Reframing Native Art

Honouring Tradition: Reframing Native Art brings new perspectives to historical and contemporary Aboriginal art.
To explore the diverse ways this art can be understood, the Glenbow Museum invited Aboriginal elders, leaders and artists to share their perspectives with non-Native museum staff. The resulting dialogue highlights the complexity of Aboriginal art from the northern plains to the subarctic regions of Canada.

Links to tradition, history and culture can be seen in artwork both old and new - from a lavishly beaded mossbag made in the 1890s, to a work created in 2006 by
chiseling, drilling, sanding and assembling circuit boards.

The breadth of Aboriginal art in this publication, lavishly documented in more than 65 full-colour photographs, honours the importance of community, the connection to land and place and the tradition of storytelling.

$34.95
ISBN 978-1-895379-58-7
8.5 x 11; 152 pages; 65+ colour photos; Paper

Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America

This Museums West publication looks at the ways in which First Nations people have been portrayed by themselves and others from the early 1800s to the present. Paintings, sculptures, traditional native arts, and popular culture objects are used to both reveal and challenge popular assumptions about native North Americans. Museums West is a consortium of ten North American museums dedicated to the history, art, and culture of the West.

$42.00 SALE PRICE $9.96
Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 0-295-97675-6

My Tribe the Crees

by Joseph F. Dion
The author, a Cree, tells of Cree customs, hunting, warfare, religion, and the impact of the white man.

$14.99
Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 0919224067

Indian Tribes of Alberta

by Hugh A. Dempsey
This reprint of the second edition has been thoroughly updated with many additions. A most important reference to the history of the Indians of Alberta, it contains maps of the distribution of tribes and reserves.

$12.95
Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 0919224008

Reclaiming History: Ledger Drawings by the Assiniboine Artist Hoñgeeýesa

by Valerie Robertson
The enchanting drawings in this unique volume engage the viewer on several levels: they are evocative objects, pleasing in their simplicity of line, colour, and message, and they are a source of knowledge that expands with each viewing.

$14.95
Paperbound Ill.
ISBN 895379067

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