Towards an art history of Northwest Coast First Nations : I. 'Traditional' period (1770-1870)
http://localhistory.vpl.ca/link/cni36563
- Author
- Jacknis, Ira
- Date
- Autumn 2002
- Geographic Location
- British Columbia
- Material Type
- magazine article
- Abstract
- Over thousands of years, the First Nations of the Northwest Coast...developed distinctive and sophisticated art styles...When trying to understand those Northwest Coast artifacts that have come down to us, it may be useful, however, to define 'traditional' from an external perspective; that is, to …
- Author
- Jacknis, Ira
- Date
- Autumn 2002
- Geographic Location
- British Columbia
- Material Type
- magazine article
- Physical Description
- illustrations
- Source Title
- BC Studies
- Issue
- 135
- Pages
- 47-53
- Abstract
- Over thousands of years, the First Nations of the Northwest Coast...developed distinctive and sophisticated art styles...When trying to understand those Northwest Coast artifacts that have come down to us, it may be useful, however, to define 'traditional' from an external perspective; that is, to define it as the time between first European contact to the beginning of systematic anthropological artifact collection in the 1870s.