books by Peter Macnair

books by Peter Macnair

books:

Peter Macnair

Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum
John R. Grimes, Christian F. Feest, ...

University of Washington Press, 2005

Uncommon Legacies celebrates the power, significance, and exceptional artistic quality of one of the most important collections of early Native American art. Assembled in the course of trade and missionary activities beginning in the late eighteenth century, the spectacular examples illustrated provide a rare opportunity to observe the creativity ...

Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the Pacific Northwest Coast

Smithsonian American Indian

National Geographic, 2005

Wisdom and beauty in prose and photo
I checked this book out of the library to use in a research paper and decided that I had to have my own copy. Eleven essays written by native peoples of the North Pacific coast relate their history and practices in beautiful prose and wisdom that one can read over and ...

The Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Northwest Coast Indian Art
Peter L. Macnair, Alan L. Hoover, ...

University of Washington Press, 1984

Susan Point: Coast Salish Artist

Douglas & McIntyre, 2000

Native American Salish artist Susan Point did not take up art until she was in her late twenties, but since then has immersed herself in the study of traditional Coast Salish art and culture. She says: "Coast Salish art is relatively unknown to most people today as it was an almost lost art form after European contact-the reason being that Salish ...

Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art

Peter Macnair, Daina Augaitis, ...

Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006

A Fine Companion Book to a Wonderful Exhibit, But...
This companion volume to the astonishing "Raven Travelling" exhibit, currently (through mid-September '06) on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery in downtown Vancouver, B.C., features fine photographs and several articles, ranging from evocative to scholarly, that will ...