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Carving Totem Poles and Masks
Category : NORTH AMERICA
Author : Alan Bridgewater, Gill Bridgewater
ISBN : 0806982144
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Description : The art of the Northwest Indians requires only a crooked knife and a small selection of gouges to produce designs, curves, patterns and faces. This work shows you how to saw, carve, whittle and paint your way to creating masks, bowls, rattles, amulets and totem poles from this ancient tradition. Each project opens with a brief introduction to place the carving in its cultural context.
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Cajun Mardi Gras Masks
Category : NORTH AMERICA
Author : Carl Lindahl, Carolyn Ware
ISBN : 0878059687
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Description : A study of Cajun Mardi Gras and its traditional maskmaking, focusing on the traditions in the towns of Tee Mamou and Basile. The authors examine the history of maskmaking, profile six current practitioners, and talk about what actually happens on Mardi Gras day in various Cajun communities
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Hidden Faces
Category : NORTH AMERICA
Author : Edward C. Curtis
ISBN : 0821223593
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Description : From the Publisher
Mythologies and rites of Native Americans fascinated enthographer/photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis. During his journeys in the United States, Canada, and Alaska, from the 1890s through to the 1930s, these aspects of tribal life, recorded extensively on film and in text, played a large part in Curtis's multi-volume publication, The North American Indian. Masquerades, body painting, scarring, and other ritual-related transformations were parts of the cultures of many native nations. Some tribes crafted elaborate masks and costumes to impersonate deities in their highly meaningful ceremonies and celebrations. Two peoples in particular had especially rich masking traditions - the Kwakiutl of British Columbia and the Navaho of tbe American Southwest. In Hidden Faces, striking images of these sacred dramatic displays and the characters depicted have been selected by Curtis expert Christopher Cardozo. Accompanying text, excerpted from Curtis's own writings, explains the role and identity of each image. In many cases, traditional rites had already been lost or were no longer performed by the time of Curtis's arrival. His photographs thus serve a dual purpose, as a record preserving a vivid native religious and cultural tradition and as a powerful artistic expression.
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The False Faces of the Iroquois
Category : NORTH AMERICA
Author : William N. Fenton
ISBN : 0806122943
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Description : Fred Zelt from Mandeville, Louisiana USA
This is an exhaustive, classic ethnological study. The author is a Ph.D. from Yale, who at the time of publication (1987) served as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at SUNY/Albany. The book is a 522 page tome that covers all aspects of false face masks, from carving through use. In addition to providing 24 color and more than 200 B&W photos of wooden and cornhusk masks, the author classifies the types of masks he has observed, describes the personages who the masks represent, and documents rituals in which he has seen the masks used. Ritual songs and positions of maskers during ceremonies are cataloged in the book.
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