Kwakiutl Traditional Carvings - Meet the Artists
网页Contemporary Kwakiutl Artists. Our culture is kept alive through all those who learn something of the old ways: our language, our songs and myths, our dances. It finds expression in the delicate art of weaving, or in the power and …
Kwakwakaʼwakw art - Wikipedia
网页Kwakwaka'wakw art describes the art of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of British Columbia. It encompasses a wide variety of woodcarving, sculpture, painting, weaving and dance. Kwakwaka'wakw arts are exemplified in totem poles, masks, wooden carvings, jewelry and woven blankets.
North West Native Art
网页Kwakiutl artist David Neel, comes from a long line of Pacific Northwest Coast Native artists. Initially, he apprenticed with Kwakwakwak’awakw masters Wayne Alfred and Beau Dick, and for 30 years he’s followed the tradition of carving masks, …
Kwakwakaʼwakw - Wikipedia
网页The music is an ancient art form, stretching back thousands of years. The music is used primarily for ceremony and ritual, and is based on percussive instrumentation, especially log, box, and hide drums, as well as rattles and whistles.
Northwest Coast Indigenous Art - The Canadian Encyclopedia
网页2006年2月7日 — More than 3,000 years ago, Indigenous peoples of the coast of British Columbia (and adjacent areas of Washington State and southeastern Alaska) such as the Haida and Kwakiutl developed artistic traditions that are heralded throughout the world for their imaginative and stylistic qualities.
Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
网页The Collection. The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. Whale Transformation Mask. Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) 19th century. Not on view. The impressive whale masks of the Kwakwaka’wakw peoples are grand constructions in which the mouth, fins, and tail of a sea mammal are made to move in imitation of a whale swimming.
Kwakiutl | Northwest Coast, Indigenous Peoples, First Nations
网页Kwakiutl, North American Indians who traditionally lived in what is now British Columbia, Canada, along the shores of the waterways between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Their name for themselves means “those who speak Kwakwala.”
Kwakiutl | Milwaukee Public Museum - MPM
网页The Milwaukee Public Museum's (MPM) collection of Kwakiutl masks is among the finest of its kind in the world, containing many pieces the likes of which cannot be found elsewhere.
Kwakiutl Masks | Milwaukee Public Museum - MPM
网页Kwakiutl Masks. Masks are highly valued by the Kwakiutl, serving as potent manifestations of ancestral spirits and supernatural beings and offering these supernatural entities temporary embodiment and communication through dance and other kinds of performance (Greenville 1998: 14).
NWC Art & Design | Milwaukee Public Museum - MPM
网页Kwakiutl. NWC Art & Design. Some evidence suggests that the antecedent of the distinctive formline design common to coastal First Nations two- and three-dimensional art can be traced back nearly a thousand years, though its popularity in northern British Columbia and Alaska is relatively recent (Holm 1984: 34, Jonaitis 1995:312).