NA Totems and Totem Poles in Leather

[Pip]

hi all i lost the thread sorry here are the isbn I promised.

ENCYCLOPEDIA of signs and symbols........ISBN 1 85170 967 3: COVERS the pacific, africa, americas, china, eastern philosophies, japan, islam, societies and belief, celtic, medieval,heraldry and 20th centuary. 303 pages

ENCYCLOPEDIA of patterns and motifs.......ISBN 1 85891 221 0: covers ...... Europe, asia, africa, americas, australasia, 300 pages

sorry it took so long.

[BillB]

PIP,

TKS. Have you been to the following web sites:

users.imag.net/~sry.jkramer/nativetotems

dev.stoningtongallery.com

[BillB]

Here are my latest two projects. The Bi-Fold was done as a donation item to the camp for their silent auction. The Desk Protector was done for a friend. The Desk Protector was my first attempt to use my Artisan 3000 on a project. The final file is the Rabbit Totem that I drew and will be putting on my wife's PDA case.Rabbit totem file did not appear to make it so I am trying again.

Edited March 2, 2008 by Johanna

[BillB]

As I continually searching for new material on Northwest Coast Native American Art to expand my understand of that Art Form, I came across the following books by Jim Gilbert and Karin Clark and published by Raven Publishing in Union Bay, B.C. Canada their web site is:

http://www.ravenpublishing.com

The books are:

Learning BY Doing, Northwest Coast Native Indian Art ISBN-0-9692979-1-2

Learning By Design, Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indian Art Volume 1 and Volume 2 ISBN 0-9692979-3-9 and ISBN 0-9692979-4-7

These books are design to assist a teacher/Artist teaching an apprentice on this Art. It takes on through the history of the Art Form, the four different styles, the basic design, ... It has helped me to understand the relationships of the various components of the art as well as the styles, the different rules in each style and the coloring of each style.

[sodapop]

i love the NW artas well...i lived in the seattle area for around 13 yrs and seen alot of it...only thing i have of it from there...is a handmade indian silver bracelet with a raven design on it...i still wear that sucker daily...now its got character though...

i'll have to give it a whirl one of these days...

darryl

[BillB]

I thought I would bring this thread up to date with other Totem work I have been doing, especially the finished Rabbit Totem.