Totem Pole Carving
Bringing a Log to Life
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Washington Press
- Date of Publication 1 September 2003
- ISBN 9780295983684
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages185 pages
- Size 242x204 mm
- Weight 518 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 128 photos 0
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Long description:
The totem pole?in all its power and beauty?is a distinctive and widely recognized form of traditional Northwest Coast Native art. Once nearly lost, this art form is alive and thriving today. In this unique book, Vickie Jensen collaborates with renowned Nisga'a artist Norman Tait and his crew of young carvers to document the actual process of bringing a log to life.
The intimate text and 125 photographs capture the charged atmosphere in which the pole is carved?the smell of fresh cedar chips, the long days and blistered hands, the camaraderie, the pride in solving problems, the ever-present awareness of tradition, the joy of creation.
Norman Tait teaches his apprentices that carving a pole requires more than time and labor, more than artistic and emotional commitment, more than a grasp of tools and techniques. The process invoves their cultural background and very being. The apprentices must make their own carving tools, design their regalia, and practice traditional songs, dances, and drumming. All these experiences culminate in the traditional ceremonies to celebrate the raising of the completed totem pole.
This book was originally published in hardcover as Where the People Gather: Carving a Totem Pole.
An important record of late twentieth?century pole carving that will be appreciated by future historians of Northwest Coast art.
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ForewordPreface
Part I: The BackgroundIntroductionNorman Tait: Nisga'a ArtistThe Story of the Pole
Part II: Carving the PoleChapter 1. Cutting the LogChapter 2. Rounding the LogChapter 3. Drawing the Design on the PoleChapter 4. Rough-Cutting the FiguresChapter 5. Carving the Add-on Pieces: Beak and FinChapter 6. Rounding Figures and Carving FacesChapter 7. The Signature FacesChapter 8. The End of the Roughing StageChapter 9. The Finishing StageChapter 10. Raising the Pole
Appendix 1. Visual Record of the Moon Face FigureAppendix 2. Norman Tait: List of Major WorksSelected Bibliography
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