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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808512803321

Autore

Dewdney Selwyn H.

Titolo

Indian rock paintings of the Great Lakes / / Selwyn Dewdney, Kenneth E. Kidd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Toronto] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1962

©1962

ISBN

1-4426-3823-0

1-4426-5374-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Quetico Foundation Series ; ; 4

Disciplina

970.657172

Soggetti

Picture-writing, Indian

Indians of North America - Great Lakes Region (North America)

Rock paintings - Great Lakes Region (North America)

Electronic books.

Great Lakes Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Editorial Note; The Quest; How It Began; The Typical Site; The Search; Recording Techniques; Dating Clues; Interpretive and Ethnological Clues; The Aboriginal Artist; Preamble; Surface and Organization; Painting Media and Techniques; Form, Content, and Style; The Sites; Regional Divisions; Quetico-Superior Country; Border Lands West; Lake of the Woods; Northwestern Hinterland; West-Central Hinterland; Nipigon Country; Northeast Superior Shore; Eastern Hinterland; Voyageur Highway: East; Southeast Ontario; Anthropological Background; Appendixes; Bibliography.

Pictograph SitesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes in word and illustration the results of an exciting quest on the part of its authors to discover and record Indian rock paintings of Northern Ontario and Minnesota.