The raven's tail [[electronic resource] /] / Cheryl Samuel

• Autore: Samuel Cheryl <1944->
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : University of British Columbia Press, 1987
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Disciplina: 746.1/4/09795
• Soggetto topico: Indian textile fabrics - Northwest Coast of North America; Indian art - Northwest Coast of North America; Hand weaving - Northwest Coast of North America
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-165).
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Raven's Tail -- Raven's Tail Robes and Chilkat Dancing Blankets -- Yeil Koowu -- The Materials -- The Techniques of Twining -- Weaving a Robe: Technique and Design -- Robes I to VII -- A Tale of Transition -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Museums -- Illustration Credits
• Sommario/riassunto: Over two hundred years ago, when Europeans first visited the Northwest Coast of North America, the weavers of the area were making robes of exquisite beauty to adorn the wealthiest of their noble class. Patterned in bold black and white geometric designs streaked with scintillating dashes of yellow, these robes predate the better known Chilkat dancing blankets from the same area. Today only eleven of these robes exist, three of them as fragments. Another two are shown on Russian historical paintings by Mikhail Tikhanov. The only other known robes are found on an archival photograph and on two sketches by Pavel Mikhailof. To produce this book, Cheryl Samuel travelled to Leningrad, Copenhagen, and London to examine the six robes in Europe. She also studied the robes housed in museums in Canada and the United States. In 1985, she reconstructed Chief Kotlean's robe, using information she had gathered from her study of the actual robes and Tikhanov's paintings. In the process, she resurrected an old weaving style no longer used by the Native people on the northern coast. Through her extensive and careful research, Cheryl Samuel makes an important contribution to the knowledge of early Indian weaving.
• Titolo autorizzato: The raven's tail
• ISBN: 7-7480-2243-7; 1-283-22694-4; 9786613226945; 0-7748-5807-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780684903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II