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Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.
Kwakwaka'wakw art can be defined by deep cuts into the wood, and a minimal use of paint reserved for emphasis purposes. Like other forms of Northwest coast art, Kwakwaka'wakw art employs "punning" or "kenning", a style that fills visual voids with independent figures and motifs [8] - for example: a face painted in a whale fin.
Coined by Bill Holm in his 1965 book Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, [1] [2] the "formline is the primary design element on which Northwest Coast art depends, and by the turn of the 20th century, its use spread to the southern regions as well. It is the positive delineating force of the painting, relief and engraving.
Totem poles and houses at ʼKsan, near Hazelton, British Columbia.. Totem poles serve as important illustrations of family lineage and the cultural heritage of the Indigenous peoples in the islands and coastal areas of North America's Pacific Northwest, especially British Columbia, Canada, and coastal areas of Washington and southeastern Alaska in the United States.
Townsend-Gault’s own writing and collaborative editorial projects are recognized as foundational reading for students and scholars working in the areas of museums studies, museum anthropology, and the art history of Indigenous arts of the Northwest Coast. [7] The 2013 anthology Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas ...
^ Drew, Leslie and Douglas Wilson. 1980 Argillite, Art of the Haida. Hancock House, North Vancouver. ^ Getty, Ronald, M. and Knut R. Fladmark. (editors) 1973 Historical Archaeology in Northwestern North America. Archaeological Association, Calgary. ^ Gunther, Erna. 1966 Art in the Life of the Northwest Coast Indians. Portland Art Museum, Portland.
The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art celebrates his legacy through the curation of contemporary Indigenous art. [ 4 ] Reid was a matrilineal descendant of K'aadaas Gaa K'iigawaay, [ 5 ] who belong to Ḵayx̱al, the Raven matrilineages of the Haida Nation.
The most elaborate and artistic painted pictographs being the Rock art of the Chumash people, and petroglyphs those of the Coso people in the Coso Rock Art District. [12] Ancient Northwest Coast art features formline painting on woven items and wood; however, few of these items survived the centuries the temperate rainforest climate.