Author: Paul Kane
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Author: Matthew J. Grow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195397738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 569

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"The more than one hundred letters exchanged between Mormon prophet Brigham Young and Philadelphia reformer Thomas L. Kane are a must for understanding nineteenth-century Mormonism and the history of the American West"--

Author: Diane F. Eaton
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774805382
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Determined to document the lives and customs of the Native people of the Northwest before contact with white settlers changed them forever, the Canadian artists Paul Kane set out in 1845 to cross the continent 'with no companions but my portfolio and a box of paints, my gun and a stock of ammunition.' Travelling by canoe and snowshoe, on foot and on horseback via the Hudson's Bay Company fur brigade routes, he made his way from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast and back again. When he returned to Toronto in the fall of 1848, he brought back some five hundred field sketches and a remarkable collection of artifacts, which he used as raw material for one hundred oil paintings depicting scenes of Native life. While the carefully executed oil paintings are deliberately romaticized images of the West that conform to nineteenth-century standards of taste, the original field sketches, which are not widely known, are fresher, more objective and authentic, more direct and undeliberated. A fascinating complement to the sketches is a small diary that Kane kept while on his journey. Brief and plainspoken, its entries were jotted down with idiosyncratic spelling and punctuation. In 1859, Kane published a journal based on these notes, which became a bestseller in Europe and North America. In Paul Kane's Great Nor-West, Diana Eaton and Sheila Urbanek recreate Kane's heroic journey and bring to life the people and places he encountered. Their narrative supplies the historical context to illuminate his travels, while frequently drawing on Kane's own words from his diary and published journal. The voice of the artist himself is heard in descriptions of one of the last great buffalo hunts, of a desperate winter crossing over the Rockies, of the impassioned 'crying of war' of a Cree chief, and of many other unique experiences. Illustrated with a wide selection of the field sketches as well as his better known oil paintings, Paul Kane's Great Nor-West reintroduces this remarkable artist to a modern audience. It not only celebrates his extraordinary journey but also creates a unique and immensely varied panorama of the nineteenth century 'Great Nor-West.'

Author: Elizabeth Waterston
Publisher: Guelph, Ont. : University of Guelph
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Margaret Seguin
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774804738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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This volume examines Tsimshian culture from the prehistoric period to the recent past and includes contributions from such diverse perspectives as archaeology, linguistics, and social anthropology. The contributors demonstrate a balance between current fieldwork and careful archival analysis, as they build on the voluminous materials that are a legacy of the scholarship of such major figures as Boas, Barbeau, Tate, and Garfield. The book includes chapters on the crest system and participation of the Tsimshian in the 'non-Native' economy of the region and introduces much original material on shamanism, basket making, and feasting.

Author: American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia
Publisher:
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Frederick Webb Hodge
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN: 1582187495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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This Comprehensive listing of tribal names, confederacies, settlements, and archaeological information was originally begun in 1873 as a list of tribal names. It grew to include biographies of Indians of note, arts, manners, customs and aboriginal words. Included are illustrations, photographs and sketches of people, places and everyday articles used by the Native Americans. The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Handbook of American Indians. Reprint of 1912 edition. Volume 2 H-M. Included are illustrations, manners, customs, places and aboriginal words. In 4 Volumes. Volume 1 - A to G........ISBN 9781582187488 Volume 2 - H to M........ISBN 9781582187495 Volume 3 - N to S.........ISBN 9781582187509 Volume 4 - T to Z.........ISBN 9781582187518

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ISBN:
Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 886

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Author: Karen Daniels Petersen
Publisher:
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Category : Indian textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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