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• Title:The Spirit sings : artistic traditions of Canada's first peoples.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Harrison, Julia D. (Julia Diane), 1953-
  Glenbow Museum.
  George and Joanne MacDonald Collection of Northwest Coast Art.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : McClelland & Stewart ; [Calgary, Alta.] : Glenbow Museum, [1987].
  ©1987
  

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  • Call Number: E78.C2 S64 1987 EX
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Indians of North America--Material culture--Canada.
  Indian art--Canada.
  
• Description:264 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color) ; 31 cm
  
• Credits:Authors: Julia D. Harrison [and others].
  
• Summary:Publication to accompany the exhibition held at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, during the Olympic Winter Games of 1988. Six essays describe aboriginal costumes, quillwork, stone, wood and bone carvings, jewelry, masks and ritual objects, mainly from the pre-contact era, as well as paintings and diary sketches by Europeans at the time of contact.
  
• Notes:"Shell Canada Limited is the exclusive corporate sponsor of the exhibition The Spirit Sings."
  "The publishers make grateful acknowledgement to the Ontairo Arts Council for their financial assistance."
  "The authors of The Spirit Sings are the curators of the exhibition of the same name, mounted by the Glenbow Museum in conjunction with the 1988 XV Winter Olymics in Calgary."
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262).
  
• ISBN:0771033559 (bound) :
  9780771033551 (bound)
  0771033567 (pbk.) :
  9780771033568 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Preface / Duncan Cameron
  Introduction / Julia D. Harrison
  I have lived here since the world began : Atlantic coast artistic traditions / Ruth Holmes Whitehead
  Like a star I shine : northern woodlands artistic traditions / Ruth B. Phillips
  By the power of their dreams : artistic traditions of the Northern Plains / Ted J. Brasser
  No little variety of ornament : northern Athapaskan artistic traditions / Judy Thompson
  Pretending to be Caribou : the Inuit parka as an artistic tradition / Bernadette Driscoll
  Silent speakers : arts of the Northwest Coast / Martine J. Reid.