By Hilary Stewart
From the enormous cedar of the rainforest got here a wealth of uncooked fabrics very important to the lifestyle, paintings and tradition of the early First international locations humans of the Northwest Coast.
All components of the cedar tree had many makes use of. From the wooden, expert males made ocean-going canoes, titanic post-and- beam homes, enormous carved poles that declared historical past, rights and lineage, and robust dance mask. ladies dextrously wove the internal bark into mats and baskets, plied it into ocordage and netting or processed it into delicate, warn, water-repellent garments. additionally they made the robust withes into heavy-duty rope and wove the roots into watertight baskets.
Hilary Stewart explains, via her bright descriptions, 550 special drawings and 50 images, the instruments and strategies used, in addition to the perfectly crafted items and their uses--all within the context of day-by-day and ceremonial existence. Anecdotes, oral background and the money owed of early explorers, investors, missionaries and local elders spotlight the textual content.
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