Télécharger le livre :  Vernacular architecture in the Codroy Valley
This book relates the story of a small Newfoundland community, as told through its buildings. From the addition of a kitchen to the construction of a new house, the way people build and change their homes says a great deal about their histories and daily lives, and the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Dynamics of outport furniture design
This richly illustrated study profiles one of the most colourful and distinctive forms of regional furniture in North America and demonstrates the skills of Newfoundlanders and Labradoreans as natural innovators, clever designers, practiced recyclers, and masters of...

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Télécharger le livre :  On Aboriginal representation in the Gallery
In recognizing the established intellectual and institutional authority of Aboriginal artists, curators, and academics working in cultural institutions and universities, this volume serves as an important primer on key questions and issues accompanying the changing...

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Télécharger le livre :  Perspectives on Northern Northwest Coast Prehistory
Thirteen scientists provide insight into the archaeology of the north coast of British Columbia in celebration of fieldwork begun by George F. MacDonald for the National Museum of Canada in 1966. This book investigates paleoenvironmental influences on human settlement,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Implements of golf
Using antique and classic golf equipment from the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s collections, this volume traces the development of balls and clubs from the early Scottish handmade feathery balls and long nosed wooden clubs, to the high tech metal and plastic clubs,...

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Télécharger le livre :  My old people say: Part 1
Long out-of-print, My Old People Say has remained a primary resource for students of the history and culture of northwestern North America. Catherine McClellan’s three decades of collaboration with the Inland Tlingit, Tagish and Southern Tutchone resulted in two...

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Télécharger le livre :  My old people say: Part 2
Long out-of-print, My Old People Say has remained a primary resource for students of the history and culture of northwestern North America. Catherine McClellan’s three decades of collaboration with the Inland Tlingit, Tagish and Southern Tutchone resulted in two...

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Télécharger le livre :  Alberta pottery industry, 1912-1990
This study focuses on the economic and social impact of the pottery industry, both locally and nationally. Drawing on the rich primary sources of company records and catalogues, existing factory buildings and equipment, photographs and newspaper accounts, this book...

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Télécharger le livre :  Canadian craft and museum practice, 1900-1950
This book presents the first overview of craft activity, as an integral part of Canadian culture between 1900 and 1950 and reviews the tone and focus of contemporaneous writing about craft. It explores the diversity of all aspects of craft, including makers, production,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Revelations
In recognition of the year 2000 and its significance for the Christian world, religion provides the common thread that binds together the book’s variety of subject matter, concerns and methodologies. This compilation of eleven papers focuses on politics, museums,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Fascinating challenges
This book celebrates Dorothy Burnham’s many contributions to ongoing research on the Museum’s ethnographic collections from the Northern Athabaskan, Arctic, Plateau and Eastern Woodlands regions of North America. Eleven papers highlight the important role that...

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Télécharger le livre :  Early Paleo-Indian Site Near Parkhill, Ontario
This volume provides a detailed description and analysis of the archaeological findings from the Parkhill Paleo-Indian (fluted point) site in southwestern Ontario. It reveals the activities of the earliest human inhabitants to enter Ontario as the continental glaciers...

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Télécharger le livre :  From chantre to djak
The performance of sacred song often involves the talents of cantors, chanters, precentors, and criers – also known as chantres, djaky, psalem-sbebniki, bazanim, prolopsalti, and muezzins. This book explores a unique class of musicians from a variety of perspectives to...

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These Tales of Extraordinary Experience detail encounters with spirit-beings and other supernatural occurrences, as related by the Nuu-Chah-Nulth of Vancouver Island’s west coast. They were recorded primarily in the area of Port Alberni between 1910 and 1923 by the...

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The Meta Incognita Project was initiated to cast new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher and their significance for the histories of North America and Britain. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage to mines and precious...

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Télécharger le livre :  Meta Incognita: a discourse of discovery - volume 2
The Meta Incognita Project was initiated to cast new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher and their significance for the histories of North America and Britain. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage to mines and precious...

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Télécharger le livre :  Tommy McGinty's Northern Tutchone story of crow
This book presents a unique account of crow charter stories by Tommy McGinty, a man from inland First Nations of northwestern Canada. McGinty’s use of language differs dramatically from recorded versions by women storytellers a generation older. A discussion on the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Caribou Hunters in the Western Arctic
Two archaeological sites in the western Canadian Arctic offer glimpses into the autumn trek of the Inuvialuit away from the coast to procure caribou meat, hides and other materials. A detailed study of the caribou bones found at these sites offer a better understanding...

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Télécharger le livre :  Calvert Site
Located in the Thames River valley of southwestern Ontario, the Calvert site encompasses a variety of structures including houses, palisade walls, pits, hearths, and artifacts. This inquiry reveals an orderly evolution in its occupation history and sheds new light on...

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Télécharger le livre :  Early Kachemak Phase on Kodiak Island at Old Kiavak
This site report describes excavations since 1963 on Kodiak Island, Alaska. The seven millennia of cultural continuity accorded to Kodiak history and prehistory have an important bearing on the past of the northern North Pacific region as well as on Inuit origins....

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