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Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings
- Title
- Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings / by Marius Barbeau.
- Author
- Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969.
- Publication
- [Ottawa] : Dept. of Resources and Development, National Parks Branch, National Museum of Canada, [1953]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Herbert Halpert Collection.
- Description
- ix, 417 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume is designed to illustrate Haida argillite carvings. The illustrations are mostly, but not exclusively, in argillite. A few wood carvings happened to bear so aptly on the same mythological themes that they could not fairly be left out"--Preface, vii.
- Series Statement
- [Canada. National Museum, Ottawa] Bulletin ; no. 127. Anthropological series, no. 32
- Uniform Title
- Bulletin (National Museum of Canada) ; no. 127.
- Bulletin (National Museum of Canada). Anthropological series ; no. 32.
- Subject
- Haida mythology
- Haida sculpture
- Stone carving > British Columbia > Haida Gwaii
- Haida Indians > Folklore
- Haida art
- Indians of North America > Canada > Folklore
- Haida > Folklore
- Art haida
- Mythologie haida
- Sculpture haida
- Sculpture en pierre > Colombie-Britannique > Haida Gwaii
- Haida Indians
- Haida art
- Antiquities
- Haida mythology
- Haida sculpture
- Stone carving
- Haida Gwaii (B.C.) > Antiquities
- Haida Gwaii (C.-B.) > Antiquités
- British Columbia > Haida Gwaii
- Genre/Form
- legends (literary genre)
- Legends
- Folklore
- Legends.
- Légendes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography : p. 415-417.
- Contents
- Volcano Woman -- Bear Mother -- Yehl, the Raven -- Thunderbird -- Tlenamaw or the Dragon -- Nanasigmat, the native Orpheus -- Wasco, the Sea Wolf -- Kagwaai or Stone-Ribs -- Su'san, Strong Man -- Swallowed, like Jonah, by the fish -- Carried away, like Ganymede, by the Eagle -- Agrillite poles with crests and mythic animals -- Appendix. The Wilkes Collection of argillite carvings at the U.S. National Museum, Washington ; Haida carving described in a lecture ; Whale hunting among the Nootka / by Solomon Wilson, Skidegate.
- LCCN
- 53012650
- OCLC
- on1084953247
- 1084953247
- SCSB-1310442
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library