CDR-1225: SR Set: Native North American Art and Culture

Our set offers extensive, detailed documentation of Totem Poles, as well as Long Houses and masks, representing the styles of important Northwest Coast groups; reflecting a recent resurgence in pole carving. From the southwest is the oldest continuously inhabited community of Taos Pueblo, as well as coverage of important Ancestral Puebloan architectural remains, petroglyphs and pictographs from the sites of Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon and the Butler Wash, River House ruin. The set also includes coverage of the National Museum of the American Indian, and early European documentation of Native American cultures in the form of paintings and engravings. 11/2008

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461 images from Saskia, Ltd. 6 images from Archivision, Inc. 50 images from Bridgeman Art Library 21 images from Canyonlights Photography 10 images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Pcd-0119
Title: Totem Pole: Thunderbird, Man Holding A Copper
Creator(s): Bruce Alfred
Date: 1995
Description: Total from right
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcd-0118
Title: Totem Pole: Thunderbird, Man Holding A Copper
Creator(s): Bruce Alfred
Date: 1995
Description: Total from front right
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcd-0021
Title: Totem Pole: Thunderbird, Killer Whale
Creator(s): Harold Alfred
Description: Colorful Thunderbird with human spirit on its chest above a Killer Whale. Total from front left
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcd-0022
Title: Totem Pole: Thunderbird, Killer Whale
Creator(s): Harold Alfred
Description: Quasi-Total from front left
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcd-0023
Title: Totem Pole: Thunderbird, Killer Whale
Creator(s): Harold Alfred
Description: upper detail: colorful Thunderbird with human spirit on its chest. view from front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Qcd-0026
Title: Totem Pole: Eagle Above Whale Holding Calf
Creator(s): Harvey Alphonse
Kelly Antoine
Date: 1986
Description: lower detail: Whale holding calf, from right front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Qcd-0023
Title: Totem Pole: Eagle Above Whale Holding Calf
Creator(s): Harvey Alphonse
Kelly Antoine
Date: 1986
Description: Total from front left
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Qcd-0024
Title: Totem Pole: Eagle Above Whale Holding Calf
Creator(s): Harvey Alphonse
Kelly Antoine
Date: 1986
Description: Quasi-total from front right
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Qcd-0025
Title: Totem Pole: Eagle Above Whale Holding Calf
Creator(s): Harvey Alphonse
Kelly Antoine
Date: 1986
Description: close detail: Whale holding its calf under its flippers
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcd-0164
Title: Totem Pole: Knowledge Totem
Creator(s): Cicero August
Date: 1990
Description: lower detail: Bone Game Player and Frog with Parliament in background
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcd-0160
Title: Totem Pole: Knowledge Totem
Creator(s): Cicero August
Date: 1990
Description: Total. Figures top to bottom: Loon, Fisherman, Bone Game Player and Frog representing lessons of past and hope for the future
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcd-0162
Title: Totem Pole: Knowledge Totem
Creator(s): Cicero August
Date: 1990
Description: top detail: Loon on head of Fisherman with spear
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcd-0163
Title: Totem Pole: Knowledge Totem
Creator(s): Cicero August
Date: 1990
Description: lower half detail: Bone Game Player and Frog
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Qcd-0027
Title: Totem Pole: Eagle, Bear Holding Salmon
Creator(s): Cicero August
Date: 1987
Description: Total from front left
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcd-0161
Title: Totem Pole: Knowledge Totem
Creator(s): Cicero August
Date: 1990
Description: top detail: Loon above Fisherman
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Qcd-0030
Title: Totem Pole: Eagle, Human Spirit Face, Killer Whale
Creator(s): Lavern (Corky) Roy Baines
Date: 1987
Description: lower detail: human being protected by tail of whale (with face of wolf)
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Qcd-0029
Title: Totem Pole: Eagle, Human Spirit Face, Killer Whale
Creator(s): Lavern (Corky) Roy Baines
Date: 1987
Description: detail: killer whale protecting human, wolf face in tail
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Qcd-0031
Title: Totem Pole: Eagle, Human Spirit Face, Killer Whale
Creator(s): Lavern (Corky) Roy Baines
Date: 1987
Description: Total from left showing deep carving
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Qcd-0028
Title: Totem Pole: Eagle, Human Spirit Face, Killer Whale
Creator(s): Lavern (Corky) Roy Baines
Date: 1987
Description: Eagle with human face on chest, killer whale protecting human who holds on to its tail. Quasi -total, view from front left
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0118
Title: Totem Pole: Tsimshian Pole
Creator(s): David Boxley
Date: second half, 20th c.
Description: lower detail: head of Killer Whale & 3/4 figure of Shaman. view from front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0116
Title: Totem Pole: Tsimshian Pole
Creator(s): David Boxley
Date: second half, 20th c.
Description: Quasi-Total from right front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0117
Title: Totem Pole: Tsimshian Pole
Creator(s): David Boxley
Date: second half, 20th c.
Description: top detail: three figures representing health, education & future of youth plus Eagle & flukes of Whale
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0115
Title: Totem Pole: Tsimshian Pole
Creator(s): David Boxley
Date: second half, 20th c.
Description: Total from front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0128
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: Total gable facade from front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0188
Title: Tribal (Clan) House
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: 1938
Description: Total from right front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0129
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: Entire left half gable and portal pole with lower half of Pole on the Point in foreground
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0189
Title: Tribal (Clan) House
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: 1938
Description: Total facade from front right
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0127
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: detail: left half of house facade and pole
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0126
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: Quasi-Total: gable with oval portal
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0135
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: Quarter-length at center from front of Wandering Raven house entrance pole
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0125
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: Total from front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0137
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: close detail: man's head below a frog
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0130
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: close detail: figure at top of left corner post
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0131
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: detail: lower half Pole on the Point with clan house in background
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0132
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: lower detail: Wandering Raven house entrance pole with Raven-at-the-Head-of Nass (the powerful chief who owned sun, moon & stars) and Raven's mother, wearing a labret
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0133
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: close detail: head at apex of gable
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0136
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: Wandering Raven house entrance pole, total segment above roof
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pud-0134
Title: Clan House and Totem Pole at Entrance
Creator(s): Charles Brown
Date: late 1930s
Description: Wandering Raven house entrance pole above roof: Raven, mink&frog, standing man symbolizing Natsihline's bringing killer whale to life by carving it. Raven-at-the-Head-of Nass is the lowest head
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcd-0104
Title: Totem Pole: Giant Halibut Man
Creator(s): Stephen Bruce
Date: 1995
Description: Total from front right
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcd-0105
Title: Totem Pole: Giant Halibut Man
Creator(s): Stephen Bruce
Date: 1995
Description: detail of man
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.